asakiyume | wind and snow

My attempt to influence the wind's snow sculpting didn't work super well, but I do have a few photos to share.

Here are a couple of before shots. One was of a mound of snow from shoveling...

You can see behind it a piece of wood and a lawn sign. Those were my other ventures. The piece of wood didn't do much of anything, but the lawn sign worked a little. Here's a close-up before shot of the lawn sign:

And here's an after shot, taken this morning, of the same sign.

If you click through and enlarge, you can see a little ridge on the right side of the sign, and two hollows on the left side ... although I think that bigger hollow is maybe just one of my footprints, all smoothed and shaped, and not caused by the sign at all...

Here's an after shot of the mound. The high-contrast sun-and-shadow situation makes it a little hard to see how it's been smoothed over, but...

And lastly, even though I didn't take a before shot of this, here's another case where you can see a lot better how a sign interfered with how the wind shaped the snow: