Day 252-Getting back to nature with some ice craft

I was sitting on the couch today sipping a cup of tea, when the sky opened up and started to hail. Literally out of the blue, it wasn't even raining before that! I watched as the back deck and garden turned white and was reminded of one of my favourite artists Andy Goldsworthy
If you love art and sculpture I highly recommend looking at some of his work (there are a few good documentaries out about him also).

Andy Goldsworthy is a brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, in the U.S. and many others

Goldsworthy regards his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. He generally works with whatever comes to hand: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. 

So taking a "leaf" out of his book, I threw on my boots and went out to play in the hail...

our back deck, isn't it supposed to be spring? and global warming?

Ice craft-surely I have started a new genre here??

 ice ice baby! da da-da da da da nanana nah na

 it looked like snow in the yard

below are some of Andy Goldsworthy's 

Ice Craft projects

craft out icicles

xxoo