Steve McComas: Here’s a celebration fish can appreciate

Ice on a lake doesn’t freeze all at once – it sputters and hesitates and then the edges stiffen. Whole-lake ice formation comes from the slow dance of rearranging water molecules.
Lake ice always follows nature’s rules. It’s a deal the water makes with winter, and the agreement lasts until the big break-up in spring. Currently under the ice, algae have died back and water goes from Murkyville to Cleartown in the underwater city that never sleeps.

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