Snow Festival

February 6th is the day of the Sapporo Snow Festival.  Japan,in 1949 children built six huge snowmen in the main square of Sapporo, in northern Japan.  The snowmen were so popular that the city decided to sponsor a snow sculpture display every year.  Today, all kinds of groups - carpenters, atheletes, chefs, etc. - design and build giant sculptures.  They often use steel frames, and thousands of tons of snow brought down from the mountains and ice chipped out of the river.  For three days more that 200 sculptures fill Odori Park.


Although we are in Tornado alley and the winters are known to be brutal...we are having 60 degree days and the weather gods are not prognosticating without full body armor.

We are going to pay for this weather...somewhere, somehow.

Le Conteur