Come along on a snowy little tour

of the

Colorado Rocky Mountain Sculpture Garden

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During the time elapsed since my previous post, A Most Illusive Winter, as predicted the snow drought has been lifted, with several blankets coming and going over the space of a few days.

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At one moment buried, the next exposed down to its base the Obelisk serves as a convenient dip stick, as it were:

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~ Leaning Tower ~

With the sun as potent as it is at this late stage of the winter newly fallen snow tends not to stick around very long, especially when it has the misfortune to land upon a bare patch of earth, or a swan…

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~ Swan Wave ~

Swan Wave does however tenderly nuzzle each and every drift that lands her way, until it too reluctantly recedes into nothing.

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~ Solar Frog ~

Solar Frog on the other hand would seem to have other, slightly more distracting matters on his mind.

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~ Terrible Lizard, Dreadnought, Troy ~

Granted it may look at first glance like winter, but with both solar fountains going hell for leather all day long their astonishingly early arrival on the scene rather serves to mock the season.

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~ Maypole ~

Considering the sheer intensity of Colorado Rocky Mountain sun I’m quite amazed that any snow still lays upon the ground at all.

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~ Cat Walk ~

~ Oblique Perspective, Cat Walk ~

~ Terrible Lizard, Wolf Man Jack ~

Each carving is responsible for its own Snow Sculpture, and so, what can I say ? Wolf Man Jack came up with this little number:

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Ice Sculpture, The Sculpture Garden by MARTIN COONEY, Woody Creek, Colorado

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Believe me, this sort of impossible frozen architecture ↑ ↓ is not difficult to find around these parts. At 7,300 feet water gets up to some mighty mysterious things. These quite splendid examples of Pareidolia for instance – just what is it you see ?

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~ Polar Trout, Will & Grace ~

Meanwhile, life elsewhere within the garden continues as per usual; Will is still furtively proposing to Grace, except that he, she… they, seem oblivious to an alarming new threat in the form of one mightily hungry Polar Trout. Seems he has set his beady eye upon the ring.

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