Some snowmen are made of real snow
So, here are finally the Snowmen ffrom January, in the periods when we had more snow than ice.
First, my own pitiful attempts, which I call the Tiny Zombie Snowmen. The snow was just too powdery to stick together both times I tried. I barely managed to "sculpt" some more or less snowman-like shape, so I didn't even try to make proper faces and just made eyes out of segments I tore off from fallen Thuja cones (That's Thuja orientalis; I couldn't find any decent illustrated text about it in English, so here is just a photo of a branch with immature cones for you)
12 January: Tiny Zombie Snowman #1, in the new park. It was already turning dark eawhen I finished it, which made taking photos even more difficult.
He was sitting on the lower tier of this fence. I only took this photo at the tiem to show how the ice and slow had slightly melted in the corner.
21 January: Tiny Zombie Snowman #2, in more or less the same place, but on the higher tier of the fence, after another snowfall. And there is a whole Thuja cone in front for those of you hasn't seen it, but I didn't have anything to show you the scale; those are tiny compared to pine cones.
Poor guy, the top of his head kept falling off, so I left him like this in the end. :)
A closer look
And here is a photo of somebody else's masterpiece I found in another park on 14 January (chronologically in between my poor little "zombies"). It was raining so heavily at the time I finished photographing him that I was forced to take put my umbrella because my hooded waterproof coat was no longer enough to keep me dry, but the cypress tree behind him was providing him with some partial protection so that the rain wouldn't destroy him at once..
A detail of his that:that's a cypress cone on top (far from conical in shape, but sometimes English is funny like this).
