The title is not a reference to New England’s freakish habit of lulling you into believing it’s Spring and then dumping snow on you. Midsummer Snowballs (ac) is a book by Andy Goldsworthy of River and Tides.

Over the winter months in Scotland, Goldsworthy assembled 13 enormous one-ton snowballs and placed them in cold storage. One summer night, he released them onto the streets of London’s financial district. Londoners awoke to startling winter sculptures on their sunny sidewalks. The snowballs were filled with a variety of elements, from feathers, seeds, and pinecones to rusted metal. The element of surprise continued as the warm summer air melted the sculptures and slowly revealed their insides to the passing public.

Its beautiful, but flipping through it I couldn’t help but think of the panic that depositing 13, 1-ton strange white balls in downtown New York would cause these days. The city would freak, and you would be hunted down, just like Michigan “All Your Base” kids.