to do, and it sure makes people happy. People are just looking for something to do this year, and we’re happy to have them come out,” he said. “With the water flowing, they actually change every couple days. It’s totally bigger and different as the days go on. They’re lit up at night. I have timers that turn on at dawn and dusk. They’re lit up until after midnight.”

He started making the formations because the artesian wells can’t be shut off in the winter because they freeze up.

“I had a fountain in my yard and that first year I let the fountain run and it turned into a neat little ice thing. The next year, I started experimenting and making more of them and bigger ones. We started with two and went to 10. There’s 33 of them this year,” said Nelson. “I’ve been doing it a long time.”

KARE11 TV’s Boyd Huppert plans an episode of his popular “Land of 10,000 Stories” from Nelson’s formations in early February. He had a crew out there last week filming for eight hours.

“It’s a fun thing for me to do,” said Nelson. “It’s nice when you get a lot of people to come down and enjoy it. It’s cool to see.”