Frost, the great synchroniser

Crook, County Durham Each frozen dawn shortens the fuse that releases the explosion of growth when spring arrivesIt was a dawn that almost made me wish that winter might last a little longer. The sun was rising over frosted grass into a cloudless sky. A crystalline morning beckoned, payback for those mildest-on-record months with their grey skies and rain that lasted from daybreak until dusk.I shielded my eyes against shafts of sunlight that speared through the hawthorns and highlighted the