Winter’s last snowman survives the first day of spring in the Alleghany Highlands

After a snowstorm dropped an inch on snow in the Alleghany Highlands on the last day of winter, a snowman still stood throughout the first day of spring, Mon., March 13. The unknown builder of the snowman apparently utilized charcoal briquettes for the snowman’s eyes and other facial features because four briquettes lay on the ground at the partly melted snowman’s base while one remained embedded in his head where his left eye should be. Two sticks were used to represent the snowman’s arms, both still stretching out from his body while holding nothing as sleet began to fall late in the afternoon. No hat, no pipe, no scarf were to be seen where the E. T. sized figure stood in a field alone near the entrance to Douthat State Park as dusk robbed him of his shadow.