For the New Year M&M and I went to Limone, a small town in the Alps in NW Italy. Pretty place and, being Italy, great food and wine. And yours truly tried skiing for the first time ever. Well I won’t say I was a natural, but I had a good teacher who took things gradually, so I only ended up on my backside once.

And, in addition to the eating, drinking and skiing we also did some walking on the lower slopes. It was cold, yet not too cold and the end result were some amazing ice formations on rocks and branches that overhung the mountain streams. We were truly in the Goldilocks zone, any colder and the streams would simply have frozen, any warmer and they would have simply been mountain streams. But in the ‘just right’ Goldilocks zone the streams flowed, and the splashes froze as they hit the rocks and branches. An icy dance for Gaia.