Winter Carnival buttons are here. And the Rice Park tree is lit.

The city of St. Paul kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show in Rice Park in downtown on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

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The designs for the 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons, created by Ham Lake artist John Fredrick Kocon, were unveiled at the St. Paul tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 19, in downtown St. Paul. The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival will run Jan. 26 through Feb. 5. The designs feature Rice Park, the state of Minnesota, a stocking cap and the battle between King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex(pictured here). Kocon said the buttons all have the same background, "a mosaic cracked ice look with blues, pinks, purples and teals." In his artist's bio, Kocon said: "As a fun, whimsical flair, somewhere in each design is the Big Dipper as a tribute to winter and the North Star State in which we all live."(Courtesy St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The designs for the 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons, created by Ham Lake artist John Fredrick Kocon, were unveiled at the St. Paul tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 19, in downtown St. Paul. The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival will run Jan. 26 through Feb. 5. The designs feature Rice Park (shown here), the state of Minnesota, a stocking cap and the battle between King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex. Kocon said the buttons all have the same background, "a mosaic cracked ice look with blues, pinks, purples and teals." In his artist's bio, Kocon said: "As a fun, whimsical flair, somewhere in each design is the Big Dipper as a tribute to winter and the North Star State in which we all live." (Courtesy St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The designs for the 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons, created by Ham Lake artist John Fredrick Kocon, were unveiled at the St. Paul tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 19, in downtown St. Paul. The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival will run Jan. 26 through Feb. 5. The designs feature Rice Park, the state of Minnesota (pictured here), a stocking cap and the battle between King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex. Kocon said the buttons all have the same background, "a mosaic cracked ice look with blues, pinks, purples and teals." In his artist's bio, Kocon said: "As a fun, whimsical flair, somewhere in each design is the Big Dipper as a tribute to winter and the North Star State in which we all live."(Courtesy St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The designs for the 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons, created by Ham Lake artist John Fredrick Kocon, were unveiled at the St. Paul tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 19, in downtown St. Paul. The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival will run Jan. 26 through Feb. 5. The designs feature Rice Park, the state of Minnesota, a stocking cap(pictured here) and the battle between King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex. Kocon said the buttons all have the same background, "a mosaic cracked ice look with blues, pinks, purples and teals." In his artist's bio, Kocon said: "As a fun, whimsical flair, somewhere in each design is the Big Dipper as a tribute to winter and the North Star State in which we all live." (Courtesy St. Paul Winter Carnival)

The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival buttons, created by Ham Lake artist John Fredrick Kocon, were unveiled at the St. Paul tree-lighting ceremony Saturday at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul.

The 2017 St. Paul Winter Carnival will run Jan. 26 through Feb. 5.

There are four buttons.

The designs feature Rice Park, the state of Minnesota, a stocking cap and the battle between King Boreas and Vulcanus Rex. Kocon said the buttons all have the same background: “a mosaic cracked ice look with blues, pinks, purples and teals.”

In his artist’s bio, Kocon said: “As a fun, whimsical flair, somewhere in each design is the Big Dipper as a tribute to winter and the North Star State in which we all live.”

Winter Carnival buttons are here. And the Rice Park tree is lit.

The city of St. Paul kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show in Rice Park in downtown on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

Ivy Morris, 6 of West St. Paul, Minn., marvels at the lights and fireworks show put on by the city of St. Paul as they kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony, downtown in Rice Park on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

The city of St. Paul kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show in Rice Park in downtown on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

The city of St. Paul kicked off the winter and holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony and fireworks show in Rice Park in downtown on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

Attendees had the opportunity to take a holiday photo in a sleigh alongside live reindeer in Landmark Plaza in downtown St. Paul during the city's winter and holiday kick off festivities on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Liam James Doyle)

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