Every year, Jacques St. Laurent creates a snow sculpture in front of his Sherwood Park home.
“I started in 2011 just kind of messing around and then I actually really enjoyed it,” St. Laurent said.
“I don’t mind working outside at -20 it’s actually quite enjoyable, relaxing – that’s why I mostly do it – to get away – it’s like my Zen if you wanna call it that.”
His latest creation was inspired by the Olympics.
“I was like you know what? I’m jacked up – let’s do something nice.”
He started in January, but said the weather was tough to work with.
“Everything’s ice. It’s not easy to carve, but I bought some extra tooling for cutting ice, so I wanted to make something more simple this year.”
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His snow sculptures always turn heads with people stopping by to check it out.
“There’s good excitement about it,” St. Laurent said.
“The school buses come by – they usually stop – the bus driver will say ‘what are you making this year?’ Then all the kids are looking in the window. I’ve had a couple classes walk from the schools here and watch.”
Fabulous!