Michigan & Texas

The Dinky Drum Co playing outdoors to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts patrons

Items at the Houston museum of Fine Arts

Bugatti at Henry Ford Museum of Innovation - Detroit

Cross between a Traction Engine and a Train.  Who knows what happens at night in the museum.

Michigan USA

Frankenmuth - town of German origins.  The glockenspeil told the story of the Pied Piper as I sketched sitting on a rubbish bin in the snow.

Frankenmuth in the snow, -6C much to my surprise my waterbrush bristles froze solid.  The town was like Groundhog day, packed - looking at the ice and snow sculptures

Santa Claus School in Midland where they teach beard maintenance, where to put your hands and the history of St Nick.

Just Jammin - C&W band

Two rivers meet at the tridge (three bridges meeting in the middle) in Midland.  Water was nearly frozen

Midland double decker

I had to go to frozen Frankenmuth to find a camel!

First time I've seen armed cops at a NZ airport

My car - temperatures got down to -27C incl wind chill

Snow & ice sculptures at Frankenmuth

The Cass River froze within two weeks and people were walking across it