This is the first time I ever took a photo of frost. Can't say for sure you will be able to see it on my black patio roof and it was still present at 08:30 this morning when I took this photo. Keep in mind I am shooting through a glass window.

All my trees where proteced even the four young fruit trees planted in my back yard.

I hope all of you hit by this frost faired out well.
Lou in Zone 5
Slowed down a bit with new desktop using Windows 7 for the first time.

Hello Pezzuti, 

What a breathtaking view you have from that window.  Just lovely.

Vivian

Hi thanks Vivian. Before the trees grew up so large there is a large pond that one could see at that time. We used to watch flocks of ducks as they landed on the pond but now all I can hear is their honking. The pond can't be seen any more because of the trees. This is a nice valley especially in the summer months.
There are a few old farms left down the road but slowly they are turning into housing developments. Time moves on.
Lou

Hi Lou,
i can see it looking hard at that roof it often forms on my shed roof until the sun gets a little up.
It also looks like it may be on the first green grass patch as well right behind that roof.
Lou  thats a very nice scenery you have there .
I know what you mean about housing developments it was all farms here 20 years back now all homes.

Lou,
Not related to figs, but what those nice (hardy) narrow-column-tall trees?

Gorgi,
Those are Arborvitae trees ( Emerald Green ).

Rafed, I do not think so (Arborvitae)...
Lou, what say you?

I would agree that they are Arborvitae (thuja americana) also known as White Cedar. Down south I think they call them Bald Cypress.

-LJ

Guys Rafed is correct. They are Arborvitae trees but they belong to the neighbor. You can't see the row I have growing directly in line with the window but they grew very tall and I just paid a guy to come out and cut them down to half there size. He also cut down a very tall Pine tree all for $240. That included hauling all the material away.

It's nice and sunny finally today so I just took a photo to show you the trees I had topped off. You may not see this but if you look towards the right hand side of the photo near the top on the mountain side there is a new Giant Walmart being built. That only means one thing MORE TRAFFIC locally. There already is a large Walmarts but they are selling that store to Lowe's who intend tear it all down and start new. They most likely will keep the parking lot. Too many changes happening!!
Lou

Well, pardon me Rafed!
I had never seen any Arborvitae grow that "tall-narrow" before.

I was hoping for Lou to say something like some (hardy) Italian Cyress;
the kind one can see in almost all Italian rolling (land) scapes.

I had a "SkyRocket"  before;  a  juniper variant, that I needed to destroy.

Currently, I am trying a much slower-growing "Sky Pencil"; a holly variant... 

Forager: 
Our bald cypres has a more conical shape, not a columnar form.  I've got some of those on this property, though I am told that they will not produce viable seed this far North and I've not seen any seedlings.  

Lou:  Your view is breathtaking. 

By the way, fig nuts, we had a little storm come thru here last night and this morning I had a couple of figs to stake.  The new growth just sort of made a J turn toward the ground.  No damage, juts soft tissue bent out of shape.  I had fences to repair and a trailer load of branches and twigs to haul out of the yard, but we count that as the cost of doing business here.