Who have we here on this PPSW park bench? What a delicate profile, an ice nymph for sure. I hope she gets there before she melts.
Within the 16th Street entrance to the park, I came across the most carefully rounded snow figure I've ever seen, looking at me from her radiant sweetgum fruits above her drooping pine cone nose and silky pink scarf. Eyes of Liquidambar, oh my!
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According to Vasari's Lives, Michelangelo, on one of those rare occasions when it snowed in Florence, had to make a snowman for his patrons: "Michael Angelo returned to his father's house, but Piero de' Medici, Lorenzo's heir, often sent for him, and one winter when it snowed heavily in Florence, he made him make a statue of snow in his courtyard, which was most beautiful." Renaissance snow sculpture. How sad it is that there weren't any cameras back to then to capture all the ephemeral works of art of being created. Guess that won't be a problem moving forward...
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