This morning was pretty darn cold outside, so I decided to try the recent Winter Science Activity that JayFromCleveland blogged about here. The idea is to fill a mug with boiling water and then go outside and fling it  (the water, not the mug) into the air in a frisbee motion -- provided it's bitterly cold outside. It worked! As a matter of fact, dh captured it with the camera. Here it is.

 The image is kind of dark, and though you can't tell, I'm appropriately using a NASA mug. Thanks for the experiment, Jay. Very cool.

On another cool note, literally, I saw on Martha Stewart the other day a man who captures snowflakes. I only saw a small portion of it, but this is how he said to do it: You capture a snowflake on a microscope slide (you can use a small children's paintbrush to transfer it) and then put a couple of drops of Superglue on it (everything at outside temperature of course so the snowflake doesn't melt). Then you cover the slide with another slide and stick it together. Put the slide in your freezer for a week. After that, you will have captured your snowflake. Hopefully I got all of that correct. You can probably go to MS's website for more info.

Jennifer :)