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Icicle update #4.

It's 46° here in Madison, Wisconsin, and for 24 hours, what was deep snow has been melting into thick fog. I'm no longer looking out my window as if from an ice cage.

Christmas in airports.

Last Christmas, my scheduled flight to Austin -- where both my sons lived -- got canceled, the rescheduled flight got canceled, and it became impossible to book a flight that would get me to Austin in time for Christmas. It was 5…

We just brushed the snow off the top of the car....

... and backed out. *** That reminds me: Bush bails out the auto industry. IN THE COMMENTS: Ron says: Ah, snowy, silver Silvio...how we've missed thee! No new wheels for you, Althouse? Not even a new TT? (I know you didn'…

The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.

You've all seen it. This photo atop all the articles about the new report on global warming. (Go to the article to see the larger size.) Here's my question. How many people look at that picture and think the polar bears …

"Winter."

Nice photo , by Andy Goldsworthy: "Torn crack in leaves / Laid on a sheet of ice wedged between two trunks of a Hawthorn that had once been a single tree until struck by lightning.”

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