Icy Inspiration

Snow is beautiful but treacherous; sometimes a book is better than the real thing. This collage might inspire you to:

Wake up to midsummer snowballs (this happened in London in 2000).

Marvel over Ice: The Nature, the History and the Uses of This Astonishing Substance and weird snow globes.

Curl up under a velvety quilt;

Peruse The Art of the Snowflake: a Photographic Album (this one's for anyone who used to run outside with a piece of black construction paper when it was snowing).

Be glad you're not Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches on a Frozen Earth.