Last winter we didn’t get much snow. But it finally did snow in February, in time for me to see downtown Chicago with patches of snow, such as on the fountain in the plaza in front of the Board of Trade Building.

Bet it looks exactly like that now. Further along, I snapped a picture of “Flamingo,” a 50-ton steel work by Alexander Calder, which has been standing at Federal Plaza for about 40 years now.

Two years ago in February, we had some particularly sticky snow one time.

But we were warm inside and able to enjoy warm food, such as octopus on rice.

I don’t know that Calder ever did a 50-ft. steel octopus-like form, but it would have been a cool sculpture.