Beautiful - sculptures.. melting

clipped from www.darkroastedblend.com The beauty of these sculptures will melt your heart; the sculptures themselves will melt soon after Fairy tale carriages prove to be very popular with ice sculptors: Lake Placid, NY Ice Festival: Chinese Ice Art exhibition: "Magic Ice 2005" at Madurodam: sculpted gallery with the Chinese lanterns (and a crocodile inside) - "Old Man and Dragon", "Dancers", "Pianist" - all marvelously creative pieces: "Frozen Butterflies" - Harbin, China, ice sculpture competition features some delicate and beautiful entries, like these ones: huge replica of Soviet Kremlin-like towers: The other world-famous competition is in Alberta, Canada - Banff & Lake Louise Ice Magic: "Cool Jazz" - Harbin Snow Sculpture Art Fair, Snow Phoenix: Another favorite: "Face Off" Ice creatively used for a street art installation: Other sources: National Ice Carving Association, Krystal Dreams (see more snow sculptures here) See more of the Harbin Ice Lantern party, 2007 - here