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2021 Socially Distant Community Snow Drawings

February 7, 2021 by Jennie Lay

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the community snowshoed out and about on the Yampa Valley landscape to make individual snow drawings, keeping our winter tradition alive while we've kept everyone safe. The community's individual 2021 snow drawings are showcased here as a collective archive of photos and videos captured by snow drawing artists throughout the Yampa Valley during February. The Library sends our gratitude and admiration out to all the artists and their admirers for perpetuating the ephemeral beauty of this art form during complicated times. This is a big win for nature, and community!

Zach Newton/Newton Aerials

Artists Toni & Mike Hennessy, Bill & Mona Bedell, Carol Iverson, and Jim & Darlene Neiles created this snow drawing on the Lazy J Ranch

Zach Newton/Newton Aerials

Artists Toni & Mike Hennessy, Bill & Mona Bedell, Carol Iverson, and Jim & Darlene Neiles created this snow drawing on the Lazy J Ranch

Zach Newton/Newton Aerials

Artists Toni & Mike Hennessy, Bill & Mona Bedell, Carol Iverson, and Jim & Darlene Neiles created this snow drawing on the Lazy J Ranch

Carrie & Tony Requist

Artists Carrie & Tony Requist created the “Sunshine Snow Flower” in their backyard near Fish Creek Falls

Artists Valerie & Brian Arel created this snow drawing on frozen Stagecoach Reservoir

The Emerging Bilingual students from Steamboat Springs High School and Middle School made this snow drawing at Perry-Mansfield.

Artists Michael Lyman & Karen McNish created a Valentine's Day design on the Chuck Lewis State Wildlife Area along the Yampa River.

Kris Hammond

Artists (and devoted craniacs!) Karen Whitney, Erin Birtwistle, Jo Smith, Doug Smith, Nancy Merrill, Nancy Perricone, Gigi Walker, Rose Zimmerman, Barbara Prager, Karla Langford, Cindy Wither and Betsy Blakeslee made this Greater Sandhill Crane

Video and photos by Kris Hammond, capturing this Sandhill Crane in its wetland habitat, a snow drawing on a meadow in Stagecoach

Kris Hammond

Perspective: the Sandhill Crane Snow Drawing is half the size of this Stagecoach subdivision!

Isaac Reynolds, 6, and his trusty Powder Dog made a Valentine's Day snow drawing on Casey's Pond.

Eva Reynolds, 13, took to the middle of Casey's Pond to draw snow spirals on Valentine's Day.

Artists Betsy Blakeslee, Sarah Blakeslee, Becky Hammond and Jennie Lay made this coronavirus-themed snow drawing on the frozen surface of Stagecoach Reservoir, with video and photography by Kris Hammond

Kris Hammond

Artists Betsy Blakeslee, Sarah Blakeslee, Becky Hammond and Jennie Lay made this coronavirus-themed snow drawing on the frozen surface of Stagecoach Reservoir

Kris Hammond

Artists Betsy Blakeslee, Sarah Blakeslee, Becky Hammond and Jennie Lay made this coronavirus-themed snow drawing on the frozen surface of Stagecoach Reservoir

Kris Hammond

Artists Betsy Blakeslee, Sarah Blakeslee, Becky Hammond and Jennie Lay made this coronavirus-themed snow drawing on the frozen surface of Stagecoach Reservoir

Artists Evan & Riley made this Valentine's Day design at High Meadows Ranch, high up on Lynx Pass near Oak Creek.

Inspired by sun and approaching spring, plus a long thin lawn for a snow canvas Sally Hertzog and Cindy Wither decided to stomp out some giant sunflowers at Cindy’s house in Steamboat Springs.

Artists Alison Lambart, Sally Hertzog and Cindy Wither drew whimsical trees with spiraling branches in the snowy yard at Sally's house in Steambaot Springs.

Artists Alison Lambart, Sally Hertzog and Cindy Wither drew whimsical trees with spiraling branches in the snowy yard at Sally's house in Steambaot Springs.