In addition to brutally cold temps, sometimes those blasts of arctic weather bring unexpected gifts — like the ones that covered an entire Minneapolis lake this past week. "Frost flowers," or ...

A polar vortex sun and below-zero wind chills marked the opening day for the Art Shanty Projects on Lake Harriet. “Oh, I think it’s amazing,” says Jenn Olin-Hitt, visiting from Akron ...

Turn the dial on a little ice hut on Lake Harriet to become a rabbit, a gopher, a shrew. Part of the Art Shanty Projects, the NatureGrafter lets visitors choose a Minnesota natural phenomenon ...