Diane emailed me this picture of the kitchen window.

Yup, that’s ice on the inside of the window. When I returned to Mongolia a few weeks ago I snapped this one with my iPhone.

What makes these so remarkable to me is that we have those new-fangled windows that are supposed to be sealed so that what’s outside stays outside. But since the kitchen is where you boil water and cook, the moisture in the air traps at the windows, and apparently, the seals and thus the ice starts building up.

Click on the images for the Flickr versions.

Meanwhile, I’m sitting in Tucson, Arizona where there’s no ice save what’s in the freezer.