During one of our recent cold snaps, I managed to make my way to the newly updated observation deck of the North Dakota state capitol building. As you may already know, the 18th floor was closed for months while renovations to the upper floors of the capitol building were performed. People from the affected floor would be moved up to 18 while their floor’s work was done. With the updates completed, we get our observation area back…and, in fact, areas that were previously closed up as offices are now wide open. That gives us more windows from which to peer down on Bismarck. That is, of course, when they’re not frosted over.

Frosted over is exactly how I’d describe the majority of the windows that day. Sure, I got the shot looking south that I used to open this post, but that’s such a typical view. I wanted to look out the other windows, but they hadn’t received enough sunlight during the day to rid them of their frost. I’d hiked two hundred and twenty feet for nothing? No. I took the elevator. But my GPS indicated that I went from 1805 feet at the front door of the capitol to 2025 feet on the 18th floor.

So what do you do when the windows are frosted over? As the title of this post suggests: take frost photos. I have a bunch, but don’t care to post them all. I have a little boy dozing off in here, so it’s time to make sure he gets a proper tuck-in and a good night’s sleep. I don’t know what a one year old boy dreams about, but I hope it’s about running around with Daddy and his camera once the weather gets nicer. Maybe he’ll earn himself another cameo on a Dakota Beacon cover!