Yesterday, Gord and Marielle revisited for a lesson on maintenance, but the weather has been holding at below zero, so the exhibit is pristine.

Here's the Shaw site in Niagara on the Lake just after strike. Paddy Parr got these photos, and here's what she said: "Hi Caitlin, Well, what took a couple of months to create, was gone in a day and a half!! Nothing left but the staging platform, the container and the garbage bin!! It was a quick strike! Tim, however, just couldn’t let it go and proceeded to create another display with pieces of ice found beneath the snow behind the Festival!!! He has left his mark!!

Today is Lori's birthday and Hayley has a cold back in California. I've got lots to do, ends to tie up, but here, I'd like to review some of the people we met but were too busy to acknowledge; some of the stories & photos I couldn't fit in earlier.



Here's Al Burns, who photographed both exhibits in Ontario. Back in Gord's studio before Italy, he and Gord worked together to find how to capture the movement in the ice. I've found some Al Burns treasures from this trip:

Here's the famous torch shot. Here's another:
Here's our tent exhibit Saturday before we opened, just four days to install all the ice we had made in December and January.
Right now Mark is driving the zamboni across the rink. Gord is amazed at his attention to the painting at centre ice. He understands exactly what he's doing and he loves the painting, so he cuts it back to the colour and builds it back up with the flooding. The following is not an Al Burns shot, but rather my impressionistic vision of the guy we love to envy on the ice.