Tagged: art odds and ends

Angelmorphosis 4 – Her trumpet is now a penny whistle

Took photos of the ice angel yesterday and today. Yesterday’s photo shows the sculpture intact but definitely changing. There are icicles on her toes and the edge of her sleeves. If you compare the...

Angelmorphosis 3 – The meltdown has begun

The temperature finally got above freezing today (just barely)—enough to start melting along our eves. I walked down to the ice angel to see what was happening. There are little icicles starting to form...

Angelmorphosis 2 – Blue Angel ice sculpture

I thought the angel ice sculpture  would have started morphing by now, but it has been a cold March–colder than usual. The warming sun hasn’t had much effect so far. Temperatures aren’t forecast to...

Angelmorphosis 1 – Changing Ice Sculpture

Late winter is ice carving time in Fairbanks. Right now the 2012 World Ice Art Championship is underway, but carvers have been producing ice sculptures around town since January. Ice angel earlier this month...

Raven’s Brew tops Starbucks in Fairbanks

  or maybe it should be “Raven’s Crew tops Starbucks.” Item – Ravens in Fairbanks, after a busy day of dumpster diving and food recycling, used to fly home to their roosts, which were...

Mining Camp Blacksmith Shop–Fairbanks Creek, Alaska

  Side of blacksmith shop at Fairbanks Creek. I was out at an old mining camp north of Fairbanks when there was just a little snow on the ground (way before the current cold...