Very Cold Black Gold

I'm back from a weekend at Lake Louise with my family. Conditions were pretty good and the weather was wonderful, especially on Sunday. There wasn't any fresh snow, but at least they had record snowfall in November or December, so it was still pretty good. A few icy spots, but not too bad.

I didn't take my camera skiing, but I took some pictures at Lake Louise (the lake, not the ski resort) one evening while an ice sculpture competition was going on. Here's one of the lake itself:

And one of the sculptures:

And one of those only-in-Alberta sculptures (which wasn't quite complete):