winter beauty........

A boat is trapped in the ice in Hamburg, Germany, on February 8, 2012. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/Associated Press)

A buoy layer makes its way through sheets of floating ice on the river Oder at the German-Polish border near Hohenwutzen, eastern Germany. (Photo by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/Dapd)

A Portuguese Water Dog named Zephyr tries to navigate the deep snow while playing with its owner, Joe Stamp, during a winter storm in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Jessica Hill/Associated Press)

Blades of grass are encased in ice after a lawn sprinkler valve froze and broke in Salina, Kansas on December 14, 2010. (Photo by Tom Dorsey/Salina Journal)

Cats enjoy frosty winter weather. Russia, November 29, 2011. (Photo by Alla Lebedeva)

Early morning walkers and their dog stroll Tynemouth beach in England, November 28, 2007. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/Press Association)

Snow dusts the landscape of the Schlaubetal park near Mixdorf, Germany on November 29, 2010. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/AFP Photo)

A Kamchatka Brown Bear rests in the first snow at the Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, November 29, 2010. (Photo by Martin Meissner/Associated Press)

Bison along the Bitterroot Valley's Eastside Highway north of Stevensville, Montana, are covered in snow following a blizzard on November 23, 2010. (Photo by Perry Backus/The Missoulian

A young couple enjoys a cold afternoon at a frozen pond in Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo by Petr David Josek/Associated Press)

The back window of an S-Bahn commuter train run by German railway giant Deutsche Bahn is covered with snow and icicles at a station early on December 2, 2010 in Berlin, as the German capital is covered with a white blanket of snow. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)

Waterfowl are seen on a frozen river in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Sergei Grits/Associated Press)

Snow covers trees in Rubi, Spain. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/Associated Press)

Ice floes float on the Wadden Sea in Neuharlingersiel, Germany, on December 28, 2010. (Photo by Ingo Wagner/AFP Photo)

A merle forages in a snow-covered garden in Ludwigsburg, southern Germany, on December 17, 2010. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle/AFP Photo)

Heavy snow is blown by high winds along Highway 13 near Burnsville, Minnesota on February 20. 2012. (Photo by Brian Peterson/The Star Tribune)