So Alex, Brooke and I are headed back to Lake Geneva Wisconsin to compete in the US National Snow Sculpting Competition in late January of next year. We had a lot of good ideas, but this ‘vortex’ I had been talking about for a while now, translated by Brooke, was the clear winner. We wondered extensively about what to put inside the vortex – there was budhha, a figure, a word sculpture, a tiny tiny tiny village, an “In case of emergency break glass” box made of ice with who knows what inside, a classic snowman, a vase of flowers, etc. We were toying around with a peace sign, or maybe a hand in the peace sign shape, but then Alyssa suggested a puzzle piece, and it just clicked. Finding Inner Peace is a puzzle, of sorts, for everyone, in their own way. So the three of us will have to find ours in the furious three and half day sculpting marathon coming up in January. We hope you like it.

It will be about 12 feet tall. That puzzle piece will be about six feet tall.

Will the people get it? Will the other sculptors get it? Who knows!

Will we get?

Hopefully!