To those of us who live in warm climates, the image of a snowman doesn’t conjure fond memories of building our own snow art in the yard on a crisp, cold afternoon.  On the Gulf Coast, where I’m from, it snows maybe once per decade, and the white stuff doesn’t stick around long when it does.  Snowmen and tire chains were never a part of Christmas for me and millions more of us closer to the equator.  So what imagery does a snowman conjure up for us?

Why, images from television and movies, of course!  Every time I see a snowman figurine (whether it includes a digital picture frame or not), I’m reminded of the old “Frosty the Snowman” cartoon they used to play on TV every year when I was a kid.  There was also that stop-motion animated Burl Ives snowman from the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Christmas special, too, with his grey goatee and melodious singing voice wishing me a “Holly, Jolly Christmas.”  For kids in Miami today, a snowman probably conjures up images in their heads of rapper Young Jeezy.
What memories do you recall when you see a snowman?