I had been kicking around this idea for a few years and had taken a couple of shots that I really liked, when a photographer friend of mine showed me his new David Lynch Book. It was called something like, "Melting Snowmen". I couldn't believe it. Now David Lynch was ripping me off, too. At first, I thought I would give up the whole snowman thing altogether, but I keep seeing all these great deteriorating snowmen and I can't help it and, oh to hell with it. I was doing it first.