Ice!

Saint Paul has just finished its annual Winter Carnival celebration. The story with this is that sometime in the late 19th century an eastern U.S. newspaper said Saint Paul was Siberia, so the city leaders set out to prove one could have fun in the winter. On Sunday I wandered up the hill to Rice Park to take photos of the ice sculptures. Often the sculptures disappear within 2 or 3 days, but the weather has been so cold this year that 10 days after the sculpture work, they are all still there.

 This block long sculpture marks the 125 year anniversary of the Winter Carnival.

Here are a couple others.

The building to the right side of the picture is the Central Library.

Many visitors had to "pose" with this sculpture. I simply don't get why one has to be in the picture!

These photos were taken on Sunday morning when the temperature was a warm 30, about-1 for my European friends.

This morning was nearly 40 degrees cooler, -6 in Fahrenheit, -21 for the Celsius system. The river was steaming this morning. One knows it is cold when cold water is steaming because the air is so much colder!