It is a funny picture. I can't post any, I have to enjoy yours. All we've had here in south-central upstate New York is rain.

 

I liked those too. I tried to imitate a few times, but lots of that art doesn't translate so well to real snow, especially in just the faint dustings we got around Portland, OR.

Once we got to New York I did take advantage of one blizzard to build a really nice snowman for the kids.

 

They're pretty average size. It's big. I took a picture from the side which made it look like a Civic that had been taught to sit up and beg. We used nice big apples for eyes, nose and buttons. That scarf only just barely wraps around the front. We rolled dozens of round ***** down that hill, then mashed them together to make his body parts.

He's well over 6'. I'm 5'11' and his "shoulders" are well above my head. I scaled him so I could *just* get his head up there by holding it straight over my head and jumping up a bit. The kids were young, they didn't have the vision for a project like that so they were amazed when it was all done even though they'd helped.

Oh, and a snowman that big doesn't get up and walk away or just melt with the first sunny day. The packed snow is more resiliant than the loose drifts on the lawn. A few cycles of thaw and freeze at night shrank him and transformed him into solid ice. There was a remainder still in the lawn the first time I mowed that spring.

 

It'd have the be held in the NW thread. We don't have snow in the NE yet. el Nino~ makes for an odd year. Next time we get pounded we'll get creative. You know how it is; no power, no way to get out of the driveway, may as well build snowmen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/...a_elnino_col_3

 

Thanks dude! I suspect you could make a colossal snowman yourself in Colorado. You wouldn't lack for raw material.

Far different from the NW. Most I ever did with the kids there was shuffle through a 1/4" dusting of snow in the parking lot with them. Hey, NWers, is it gone yet?