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My Sculptures 1987-2000There's no business like
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I became an official snow sculptor in the Winter of 1988. My daughter, Keely, asked me to sculpt a snow dinosaur. The year before I had made a snow bunny for Easter in the backyard. As I contemplated her request I tried to imagine a twenty foot snow tyrannosaurus Rex looming over the heavy traffic that passes our house. My T Rex was little more than an iguana. I was pretty embarrassed so I tried to improve my work by carving a stegosaurus beneath the iguana's jaws. You can see it didn't intimidate my daughter.

What follows are pictures of most of my creations over the past thirteen years. A few of these pictures are thumbnails. Click them and you can see a larger version.

Spring 1987

Bugs showed up in the backyard of our old house on a warm spring
day.  Keely remembered it when she put in a request for a dinosaur the
next year at our new house.

1987-1988

Iguana don - After Keely's request started my snow sculpting career
(Stegasaurus added later to hide T Rex wannabe's prostrate position)

 
 Bunny with eggs

1988-1989

22nd wreck (Plea for a stop light after 21 accidents in our first year at 2101 E 4th St.)

 
 Santa on a Triceratops. Santa was an afterthought when Christmas arrived

 

 Mommy and Baby Triceratops. We got a lot of snow this year.


A Tyrannosaurus Rex (not an iguana) Stared at the two
vegetarians on the other side of the steps.


1989-1890

Who is Phil?
Phil on the loose atop Old Central High School

1990-1991

Phil Redux

  
Phil and I send a letter to the editor
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In honor of Desert Storm


1991-1992
 
Dragon


Bill's sax  check this for my thoughts on Bill 

                      
Chilly Pup Thumbnail - DeWitt Seitz Red Flannel Days 


Skiing Stegosaurus at Cable, WI for Birky


1993-1994

Coca-Cola Santa



  Sea Dragon

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Birky Bear Cable, Wisconsin

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Butterfly

1994-1995

 Sphinx


Gingerbread House For Fitger's Winter Festival

 

Bunny


St.Bernard with Cask for Birkebeiner, Cable, Wisconsin
1995-1996

UMD Bulldog "Champ"

1996-1997



Looking for his place in history, NOT! or Man from Hope

      
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 First Cheesehead click here for an explanation

Bill at Mt. Rushmore - click pic to enlarge
1997-1998
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White Whale thmbnl. White Whale #2

 
  20 Minute Dinosaur (went up fast)

1998-1999

The Scream (at an unexpected snow fall)

 

 Bear's dancing

 
  Bearspanking (for whoever pushed over the polar bears)

   
Loon riding Laskainen Sled Run at Palo, MN
 
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Peace Bell at Memorial Park Winter Festival 


Education Governor (Jesse with Mortar Board)
 


1999-2000

Charles Schultz Memorial 


Goblin.jpg (Meant to be a MN Viking until face fell off)


DinoEgg.jpg for Two Harbors snow sculpting
 

Sea Serpent

My Snow Sculptures 2000-01

My Snow Sculptures 2001-02 

My Snow Sculptures 2002-03

My Snow Sculptures 2003-04

The Ten Thumbs guide to Snow Sculpting