From Newsday:
Each year, millions of visitors flock to the famed Niagara Falls, where 20 percent of the world’s fresh water plunges over a cliff created during the last ice age.
Although tourist season at Niagara is May to October, in winter the falls continue to flow and glow – literally. As temperatures drop, spectacular mounds of ice form from the mist, but the tremendous volume of water never stops flowing and the American and Horseshoe Falls remain illuminated in shades of the rainbow as darkness descends.
More dazzle arrives in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the middle of November with the Winter Festival of Lights. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the event, which will run through Jan. 2. Fireworks, light parades and 2 million lights brighten an already glistening landscape.