There were prizes awarded late in the day for the best ice sculptures. We didn't hang around that long but I had my own pick for b...

Americans, or at least those my age, all know of the legendary frontiersman, Daniel Boone . He opened trails from Virginia and North Car...

Maybe it's happened to you. You set up a shot in a public place and, just as you are about to press the shutter, an adolescent male ...

That phrase is a weather reporter's staple here in the Midwest when bitter cold winds from the Canadian plains sweep across us. T...

I don't know about your country, but in this one it is common to see a variation of this in the back window of large SUVs and mini ...

These are some examples of the ice carvers' efforts. They are a bit strange. A wolf and a mountain lion in a face-off? Three Little...

  More ice carving. I was talking to someone today about how on earth the sculptor could make a perfect circle out of a block, not usin...

The ice carvers I saw on Saturday had amazing skill. They used all sorts of power tools freehand. The web site for the event said tha...

There was an ice carving festival in the outer suburb of St. Charles yesterday. Not an ice festival like last week's in University ...

. A little bit about the process of making the ice sculptures. Look at the concentration of the man above. He was using an electric drill wi...

. At first glance it's a little hard to catch the figure-ground difference in the top image. Once you've got that, the question of i...

. A cold heart, perhaps, but throbbing with light. Wow, this must have taken a lot of work. The sculpture, not the picture. This was taken...

. I drove across the wide Missouri River yesterday to the the city of St. Charles. That's starting to get into the outer suburbs (ours g...