Ice is Nice


Many rural towns, like our nearby Idaho neighbor of McCall, have ice carnivals, parades, and sculpturing contests, each winter.  It is indeed amazing to see what human artists can create, but they never can quite top that which nature carves out of the cold.   More...

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