But first...
Dulltown, UK: Today's dictionary words are: ventayle, manteau, quadroon, banxring, sestina, eyra, and commensurability. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor turn up in the garb of an Old Testament prophet, carrying a selection of stone tablets, you should not allow this to distract you from your studies. Extra marks will be awarded to students who are very quiet.
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Hm... it was a chilly morning in January.
On opening my bedroom curtains, I noticed that some sort of condensation had collected on the outside of my window.
It was partly masking the view of the big ash tree at the end of next door's garden. But to my surprise, somehow the condensation had decided to take on the shapes of trees too. They look a bit like the  sort of thing that good old Bob Ross would have in one of his paintings. Click here.
So, even having just crawled out of my warm bed, I heroically nipped off and got my camera, came back, focussed it on the window, and... Click!

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Hm, yes, isn't nature strange?
This is just some moisture running down the outside of a window.
The water droplets must form tiny branch-shaped deposits on the glass and, under gravity, they slowly move downwards, meet up with their pals, and form thicker branches, and then keep on going downwards until they finally form wide trunks with nicely spaced gaps in between them.
Isn't it odd that the descending water makes such a similar pattern to that of a sapling growing upwards over the years and slowly turning into a tree?

Oh, look, a little forest has appeared outside!
Look out! It's the copse!...
I was surprised how well this photograph turned out, it was definitely worth the bother of taking it, wasn't it?