"It's all political."

Is it? Really?



Even the snowmen are picketing.



And Jesus Christ is telling the governor off...

SNOWLIDARITY!

(At the Wisconsin Capitol today.)

Winter surrenders...

... here in Madison, Wisconsin.

"One day I'm gonna whistle?"

The little girl asks at 1:47:



Highest rated comment at YouTube: "If I ever have a daughter, I'm going to have this relationship with her. I promise."

(Via Andrew Sullivan.)

"I haven't been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he's gone."

A woman in the UK calls the police to report the theft of her snowman. And she's a smoker.

At the Shrunken Snowman Tavern...

... shun shrinkage. Be as expansive as you like. Swell!

The prairie reverie.

There was a snowman the warm weather had made disproportionate:



And evil trees:



This one attempted to claw out my eyeball:



But these are all trivial details. In the end, it was mostly like this, which I consider essence of prairie...



... because, as you can see, there were no bees and no clover.