The cold and crisp of winter moderated the past two days with temperatures in the 40’s.  With our layer of snow and cold temperatures on the ground we awoke this morning to a beautiful landscape of fog.  The stillness of early morning and the fog’s softening effect made the landscape magical.  Everything stood quietly as the fog moved in and out, becoming thicker and then lessening to a thin veil.  I was at the McNeely Conservatory at Como Park this morning, where the thin ice of the Frog Pond allowed the fog to form above it in a narrow band, still leaving the dome of the conservatory visible above.