While serious winter seems to have been cancelled in Minnesota this year, it's going strong in Harbin, China, site of the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.
Here's a great video clip produced by The Telegraph., and borrowed here from Shanghaiist.
Even though I lived in Changchun (a few hours south by train) for 8 years, I could never bring myself to go NORTH in January. Maybe I should have.
Too all my friends in Harbin....WEAR MORE CLOTHES!