He's Baaaaack!

[the_other_sandy]

I have a neighbor (and by "neighbor," I mean "guy who lives about 5 miles away on the route I sometimes take home from work") who makes the most amazing snow sculptures in his front yard. The last time I saw him, he was up on a ladder working on an 8 foot high replica of Rodin's The Thinker, but that was two or three years ago. I thought he'd moved. Then I was driving past his house last Friday and he had an 8 foot high sculpture of a hand holding an Olympic torch aloft out of his yard, and he was up on a ladder in his neighbor's yard working on another statue. It could have been Roman but was probably Greek to go along with the Olympic theme. Either way, he wasn't far enough along with it for me to recognize it.

I just wish I could get pictures, but that stretch of road is very busy and has no shoulder, or stop sign, or stop light where I could pause to get a good shot. He really does do fantastic work. Sometimes, depending on what he's making, he even colors them with food coloring and water in a spray bottle.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Wow, he must be really dedicated. And wrap up well from the cold!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Chicagoans are a hardy breed. Once you've experienced a -91F wind chill, 25F seems like a tropical vacation.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

My college roommate and I once made a snow shark. We used blue milk bottle caps for eyes and diluted blue food coloring to outline the shark from the rest of the snow beneath and to draw "waves." I took photos of it at night under the parking lot lights so it would stand out better from the rest of the snow on film.

It was so cool none of the obnoxious guys on campus wrecked it. It was there until it melted.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Cool!

The only cool thing I ever made was a snow cave. Back in the winter of 1978-79 when the shoveled snow along the driveway was over 6 feet high, a friend and I hollowed out a giant cave with built-in furniture, then watered it down so that the snow turned to ice for structural integrity. It lasted 'til spring.