When I told Littlestar about all the snow, she charged me with the task of making and then photographing a snowman. In trying to do this, I hit one major technical limitation.
No gloves = crippling pain and risk of frostbite after maybe five seconds of work.
This limited me to short bursts of activity followed by a hasty attempt to de-ice my hands, then a rewarming period in my pockets. The end result of this pain is the snow figure pictured above. Its arms were made with one of my pens because there were no loose branches lying around, and I really didn't want to hurt any of the plants nearby (they already seemed pretty harassed by the weather).
More dynamic snow totem pics in the extended.
Snow totem protects that bastion of energy inefficiency, the heated outdoor swimming pool.
Snow totem is contemplative.
Snow totem is cheerful, too.