Happy new year to you all. I was very happy to see the snow we received last week because I love solid water, and all the things we can do with it. Sliding with my grandkids, riding a snowmobile, skiing at Mont du Lac, jumping and skiing at Pine Valley, fishing on a frozen lake, skating across a pond or a rink, or just looking at it, are all some of the reasons why I really do enjoy winter.

In some of our past adventures we traveled in time or became really small. This column is about snowflakes; we need no special powers to enjoy these beauties and just a little chemistry and physics to u...