LYNNWOOD — A true celebration for Carla Salvo involves creating something beautiful.
“It’s the way that I rejoice — by creating something,” she said.
Early afternoon on Christmas day, Salvo went out of her snow-clad house and built a snow leopard.
Salvo is a writer and has two cats. “I love the feline form.”
The snow leopard stood more than 4 feet tall, Salvo said.
Building snow sculptures has become a tradition for Salvo. She said she even built a Venus de Milo one year.
When the rain started coming down on Saturday, the sculpture began drifting away, but Salvo wasn’t sad.
“There’s always another one to build,” she said with a laugh.
CLEARVIEW — Todd Barnes may have forgotten how much fun he had building snow sculptures as a child, but last week it came right back to him.
Barnes, 50, and his daughter Katie Barnes, 23, decided to take a break from shoveling snow last Monday and built a snow hula girl. “It was wishful thinking,” Barnes said.
Father and daughter used tree branches for the snow girl’s skirt and hair. They named her Frostina, Barnes said.
Barnes said he used to build snow sculptures all the time when he was a child. “This reminded me a lot of growing up in Spokane.”
Like many in Snohomish County, Barnes and his wife couldn’t get to work for several days.
“We were snowed in, but it’s been fun,” Barnes said.
The weather hasn’t been kind to Frostina. “She had better days,” Barnes said on Saturday.
Katya Yefimova, Herald reporter
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