At the Hoarfrost Picnic...

... there are 2 big tables open. Sit down. Look up!

At the Hoarfrost Café...

... it's warm inside.

At the Crack-Up Café...

... it's time to break the ice. (And buy some stuff for yourself at Amazon — using The Althouse Amazon Portal . You know you deserve it — and so …

At the Icicle Café...

... we're all dammed.

At the Hand-Carved-Ice Café...

... you can talk about anything you want. (But you have to wait for me to moderate your comments in, because that's the kind of place this has be…

Ice quake!

Does anybody know about the quake? We do! Thursday afternoon the staff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison near Lake Mendota felt a shake and he…

The first frost.

At the Thin Ice Restaurant...

.... come on out and have a seat!

At the Lake Ice Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like. And do some Amazon shopping through The Althouse Portal .

The view from my ice cage.

The view from McDonald's.

A stop in Oklahoma, late Sunday afternoon. Note the thick coating of ice on the tree. We made it that evening to Andover, Kansas, just beyond Wichita…