This is a clip from the Sir David Attenborough series Frozen Planet II highlighting the life of the world’s most northern-living turtle, the painted turtle. The turtles actually freeze in the winter and their hearts stop beating (leaving only their brains operating at bare minimum), but defrost and comes back
Five years in the making, this is ‘Winter’, a timelapse video beautifully shot by filmmaker Jamie Scott over the course of five winter seasons in New York and Montreal, Canada; with up to six cameras and four sliders at a time. It features a lot of snow and natural water
Captured in portrait mode by Dan Brown while hiking with his father near the head of Loch Fyne (home of the finest Loch Monster) in the Scottish Highlands, this is a video of a naturally occurring spinning ice disc. Per Wikipedia while I make a bowl of cereal with hot
This is some delightful backyard security cam footage of a raccoon embracing the winter weather and trying to catch snowflakes in its hands and mouth. Me? I will never embrace winter weather, and House Stark definitely could have picked a better motto if they wanted to encourage tourism. Of course
This is a local Minnesotan news report highlighting the Wilcraft, a mobile ice fishing house invented and manufactured by Tom Roaring (prices start around $20,000). Inspired by his desire to move to where the fish are biting instead of hoping they come to him, the vehicle can drive on ice,
This is a video of Potato the Corgi running circles in the snow of her new backyard in Aurora, Colorado, after moving from California where she never got to experience snow. What a cutie! Are they the most perfect circles I’ve ever seen run? Of course not, but they’re far
Because Winter Is Coming, this is a video of a squirrel (who presumably took a page from my playbook and saved all its work for the last minute) in Canada going nuts(!) ripping pinecones off a tree branch and tossing them down to craftyredhead’s deck below, where it will later
Because things aren’t always as they appear *magically produces rose from sleeve that’s actually a pair of rolled up edible underwear on a stick I bought at the gas station last night for $16.99 because I forgot Valentine’s Day again but am still a romantic at heart* this is a