What to do when it's 45 degrees BELOW ZERO

Yesterday we had the dubious record for being the coldest location in Canada!  At -45 C there's not much to do other than stay indoors, cook good food, and watch movies.

It was this afternoon, when the sun finally shone through the clouds for a while, that I noticed the intricate patterns the intense cold had drawn on the windows.

And there, in the bottom corner of the patio window, were the beautiful structures of black ice.  The colors in these photos have not been changed.

With a bit of imagination you can see the settings for a world of magic and mythical creatures in the patterns and colors of the frost .