Sunday, January 6, 2019

ICE SCULPTURE

    For being the land of ice and snow, we have very few ice sculptures. As far as I know we have a garden center that has ice sculptures each Christmas. The come up with  theme and then find businesses that are willing to do a sculpture related to the theme.

    This year for us the theme was very simple...Canada winter games. I'm disappointed that only half the display was actual sculpturing. 

    Now I got out too late to see these sculptures as we've had some days above freezing so some of the finishing and details are not clear anymore. 

    But for what they are worth, here they are.

   







     Now the last two photos are for Linda at Linda's Letters. She often shows magnificent plant nurseries. Here's one of our local nurseries. It gets sad in the winter.

31 comments:

  1. Those are cool if you will pardon the pun.

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  2. ...there are two communities that I know of in New York State that have winter carnivals with huge ice palaces made with ice cut from their nearby lakes. During the last several years warm temps have been a problem. If you open your mind (which is difficult for some ) beauty can be found each and everyday!

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  3. I like those ice sculptures it is real art but sad it never lasts...

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    1. I admit I have a soft spot for ice sculpture.

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  4. I always feel sorry for poinsettias when I see them in cold, snowy places. In Florida we used to be able to plant them after Christmas and they'd grow in the yard! The ice sculptures are great! We can still see plenty of detail.

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    1. I remember seeing poinsettias growing in the ditch in Hawaii!

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  5. They do look a little bit melted, but they were still interesting, Red. Thanks for getting there before they were a puddle! :-)

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    1. We've had some above zero days so there is slight thawing.

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  6. It's quite an art, seeing them carved. I'm looking forward to seeing this year's edition at Winterlude.

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    1. I like watching the series you do on ice sculpture.

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  7. I am surprised that Red Deer's city fathers have not commissioned a twelve foot ice statue of their most famous citizen... The Micro Manager!

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    1. For the important old guys here we have bronze but you have to be dead first.

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  8. Those are some fairly intricate ice sculptures! Thanks for sharing those. We've had such temperature swings here this winter I'm afraid ice doesn't stand a chance.

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    1. I'm always amazed at what ice carvers can do.

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    1. Weather has been very variable this winter.

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  10. It's too bad that they don't last long before melting. They are really nice to see.

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  11. I enjoyed the pictures of your ice sculptures as i miss the ones in Minnesota. Several years it was just too cold to go look at them,and other years they melted before i got a chance! Fortunately some years were just right and they were beautiful.

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    1. I went in the day before the lights came on I like the sculptures better when they are lighted.

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  12. These are wonderful! I'm always in awe of people who can do this.

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  13. Many of our plant nurseries are not burgeoning with plants now either. And we have NO ice sculptures, not sitting around outside anyway.

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  14. It's hard to imagine blocks of ice lasting more than five minutes here at the moment!
    I like ice sculpture, it's transitory nature makes it more special

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  15. Those ice sculptures are brilliant! I have only ever seen one in my life and that was a long time ago.

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