Chilly Critters

For several years now during Winterlude, snow sculptures can be found at various points along Bank Street in the Glebe neighbourhood. This year is more of the same, with two carvers working on five sculptures. I photographed them over a course of a few days. Animals that are well adapted to the cold was the common theme, and all but one of them residents in Canada. We start with the walrus.

A wolf is to be found in the courtyard outside Fourth Avenue Baptist Church.

Up the street are two penguins.

While down the street at Lansdowne Park, a carver was at work one day on this one, a Canadian lynx.

Here's the finished work, by night and day.

The last of them is at the north end of the neighbourhood. The carver was behind the sculpture in this first view.

A couple of days later the sculpture was finished as I passed by, depicting a white-tailed deer.