Foxy's
winter adventures
 Part 53

 

Winter town. Part 1

2014-01-31. The light was shining in our town.

They made Winter Town, because Umeå is the Culture Capital 2014.

2014-01-31. The green light ribbon is a laser beam that goes form the old town hall to the railroad station.
2014-01-31. The green light ribben is a laser beam tha goes form the old tonwhall to the railroad station.
2014-01-31. They hade fire and benches on the market place.
2014-01-31. The stripes in the picture are snowflakes.
2014-01-31. There were reindeer antlers in the artwork.
2014-01-31. Many people were walking in Winter Town.
2014-01-31. It was cosy by the fire.
2014-01-31. Still stripes on the picture because it was snowing. snowing. Here you also can see the laser beam over the street.
2014-01-31. The old town hall.
2014-01-31. The Glass House and the sculpture "Standing man". The sculpture is permanent.
2014-01-31. There were coloured floodlights. These were lighting up the sky and it should depict the northern light.
2014-01-31. It was beautiful.
2014-01-31. A column of ice.
2014-01-31. The flood lights are on the ice on the river. The next day they should have the opening of Culture Capital on the ice.
2014-01-31. They also hade Sami tents. These became blue because of blue light.
2014-01-31. The light columns are stripy because it was snowing. the next day they should have artists on the yellow stage at the right.
2014-01-31. It was beautiful to see all the lights. At this place on the ice on the river, the show and opening should be on Saturday February 1.
2014-01-31. They had blue light on the old tower.
2014-01-31. The light on the ice on the river.
2014-01-31. White lights in the park.
2014-01-31. The ice column was lit by the headlights of the cars.
2014-01-31. Blue light on the Glass House.
2014-01-31. This is a big snow fort. It has a long slider and children could glide on the ice they put on the slider. It was beautiful with the blue light.
2014-01-31. Back on the market place.
2014-01-31. There came a group ice artists who made ice sculptures. Then the fence still was closed. But I could put my lens through the fence and take pictures.
2014-01-31. An artist was doing the last things on the sculpture.
2014-01-31. Still working with the sculpture.
2014-01-31. The were two sculptures that were not ready. These were ready the next day.
2014-01-31. This was ready and I also took the picture through the fence.
2014-01-31. I was lucky to get this picture. Because the next day the ice houses were snowed over an not so pretty anymore.
2014-01-31. Working on the ice sculptures. As it was the day before the opening it did not matter they not were ready yet.
2014-01-31. A part on the top of a sculpture.
2014-01-31. In summer there is a little fountain here.
2014-01-31. Now they had made an artwork of a stump. I love the blue light.
2014-01-31. There were small houses that hade a kind of shopping windows. The blue light was nice on the backside of the houses.
2014-01-31. There were also walls of snow by the houses.
2014-01-31. This is a window in a house. Showing art birds.
2014-01-31. The backside of another house. I will tell more down below about the yellow chairs.
2014-01-31. Here we could see a little shop through the window of a house.
2014-01-31. In this house were all kind of pictures.
2014-01-31. In this house was a landscape.
2014-01-31. The red smiling sculpture is permanent. it's Umeå's logotype.

Some people made these chairs who are connected together.

2014-01-31. Two strangers can sit down there.
2014-01-31. Here is the sign on the chairs. This was a real good thing. But it was bitter cold and to cold to sit down.
2014-01-31. There was a school in one of the houses.
2014-01-31. Artwork with logs.
2014-01-31. Here they were working with some lights. This evening they were adjusting things for the opening.
2014-01-31. This sculpture is permanent and made of grey stone. It became blue in the blue light.
2014-01-31. In distance are walls of snow covered with reindeer skin.
2014-01-31. The rail road station. Here you can see the laser beam go in into a window of the station. The green sculpture is permanent. It's made of glass plates. It's called: "The Green Fire".
2014-01-31. The laser beam over the Esplanade and in the distance the lights by the river.
2014-01-31. The workers had taken away the fences and we could go near the ice sculptures. I like the blue light. This colour is doing so well for taking pictures.
2014-01-31. The man in the boat and the fishes were beautiful
2014-01-31. Another picture of the small houses. The ice drops on the wall are so pretty.
2014-01-31. This is glass plate made of ice. But it was too cold to take a drink. But maybe somebody did it.
2014-01-31. Back on the market place again. It was good to be here a while and be warm by the fire.
 
Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-04