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2 Iguanadon
My daughter had this in mind. The year before her request for a snow dinosaur we owned a home in Dultuh's West End off of Piedmont Avenue. I was grappling with the end of my teaching career as we were closing on a new home in East Duluth. I evidently managed to find a little cheer at Easter time. Judging by Keely's little brother it was warm and sticky which is the perfect time to sculpt snow if not always to preserve the results. The ears had been a last minute whim which I added to a traditional snowman. They worked so well I put a muzzle on the man and voila, Easter Bunny.
As it happened I had been one of those little kids who were smitten with dinosaurs. They were in fact creatures that I taught my self to draw. When Keely requested a dinosaur I looked down the long hillside below me and imagined a towering Tyrannosaurs Rex staring down the on coming traffic.
This is what I got instead. An iguana with a bad overbite.
I was embarrassed by it since it fell so far short of my dreams. I decided to take the big bib of snow below it and give it an excuse for lying on its belly. I managed a passable stegosaurus dinner below the iguanodon's chin. Like the bunny ears from the year before I learned that with snow you really could make silk out of a sow's ear.
I wasn't the only one to take a picture. One of the television stations news photographers came out and interviewed my daughter for the evening news.
