Wednesday, April 11, 2007

2007 Ice Festival

I know this posting is a little late, but better late than never!!
I was happy that I went to see the single block sculptures as early as I did...even though I didn't like the fact that it was -10 with a pretty good wind that day....about a week later, some vandals went through the park at night and destroyed some sculptures. One of my favorites, the Praying Mantis was one that got hit pretty good. I was so disappointed that it got clobbered for I was looking forward to seeing it lit up at night.






This particular sculpture, I was not at all impressed with during the day, but at night lit up, it is beautiful. It's pretty strange how colored light changes the feel of the ice, not to mention how the light changes as it goes through the imperfections in the ice.













This photo is of the Susan Butcher Memorial. For those of you who haven't a clue who she is, she is the second woman to win the Iditarod, and the first person to win it 3 times in a row, a record that stood for 15 years. She passed away this past fall of leukemia.
The cool thing about this sculpture is that the light colors cycled. My first attempt at taking a photo failed because it was a 30 second exposure and the lights cycled through all their colors during that point and all I got was a big blob of white!

Friday, February 9, 2007

The Knotty Shop

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Last week Martina & I went to the Knotty shop. It's a cute little place that sells a lot of touristy stuff. The drive was quite pretty for it was a beautiful sunny day...we had to wear our sun glasses!!! We had fun looking at all the stuff that was inside, then we had fun looking at the burlwood (knotty pine logs) animals out front. When I turned around go go back to the truck, I saw one of the most beautiful snow scapes I've seen in a very long time. After I uploaded the pictures and saw the snowscape, after "Oh!, How pretty!", I thought "What a bitch of a puzzle that would make!" Dad, you better watch out, I'm checking on getting it made into a puzzle fro Chrismas '07!