A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words

Which is good, because I don't feel like spouting out that much nonsense. So have lots of pictures!

(I finally figured out how to get lots of pictures off my phone at once. Go me! Figuring out your phone is a lot harder when half of it is in Chinese.)

A January selfie in front of the Mao statue near the hotel. Apparently it's one of the biggest in China.

Sidewalk snowman!

There's a street that is kind of Shenyang's gentrified Japanese neighborhood that has all kinds of these
statues along it, which are very startling when you walk past them at night and
catch them out of the corner of your eye.

My very favorite sidewalk snowman

Tire art? Saw this while walking to IKEA. 

Where do you even keep a donkey in Shenyang? I saw this fellow on a downtown street corner on the way
to the consulate. I think he and his person were selling sweet potatoes.

These ladies were performing in a mall, playing (so Google informs me) the guzheng, or Chinese zither.
It was really cool and I thought I took a video but apparently I only took a picture. Boo. 

The random public art installations never cease to amuse. Attack of the mutant giraffes?
This was outside the mall with the zither players.

P.S.- I do appreciate any and all comments, and I want to respond to them, but I don't know how. :( Does anyone know how to do such a thing?