Wonders Of The Imagination

 Carrying on, here we have more of the small sculptures around the fountain in Confederation Park during Winterlude 2018.

That year one of the big sculptures in the park featured harness racing.

Across the street west of the park is the Lord Elgin Hotel, and this was their ice bench that year, marking the 40th anniversary of Winterlude.

In front of their main entrance were their customary two ice sculptures, this time featuring animals.

Preparing The Festivities

Today I turn to Winterlude 2018, and in the Glebe, snow sculptures were being erected or had already been finished in the days leading up to the event, along Bank Street as it goes through the neighbourhood. This one had an Olympics theme.

Down the street, others were being prepared.

Confederation Park at night: a large sculpture was behind bike racks when I passed through.

The first weekend of the festival the carvers got to work.

Deceptively quiet: this view looking east in the park only features a couple of people. Most visitors were in the sheltered spots watching the carvers do their thing.

The small sculptures had already been made for that first weekend. We'll pick up here tomorrow.

Ethereal And Haunting

More today from those beautiful sculptures illuminated at night as they were in 2017. Tomorrow I turn to Winterlude 2018.

Enjoying The Season

Buskers are always a big thing at Winterlude. Here we had some coming out of Confederation Park back in the last weekend of the festival in 2017.

The Ice Hogs were across the street at City Hall. In the background is one of the library Bookmobiles.

Skaters were on the ice at the City Hall rink.

This polar bear ice sculpture stood up well throughout Winterlude that year, but you can see what three weeks of sunlight exposure does to ice, rendering it opaque.

That last weekend, more small sculptures were being carved around the fountain in the park.

The stage that weekend hosted Inuit teens when I was passing through; the group were singing here.

At night the sculptures take on a different tone. This one was the European Union one at City Hall.

And these were in the park, starting with the Canada 150 one.

The Vimy Memorial ice sculpture was particularly haunting at night.

The bear looked well lit at night.

I leave off today with the large sculptures in the shelters.