Snow impression

When I first laid eyes on this impression in the snow it completely confused me. It must  have been some animal who had strayed over from the land to the rear, or possibly more likely a family of animals, but I couldn't think of anything that made any real sense.

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Having decided that it couldn't have been an animal I tried to think how I could have created it, and then it dawned on me that I had been standing at this spot to take photos of the garden, and that it had to be a collection of my footprints having been partially melted. That thought made it possible to actually determine the shoe impressions.

I still thought it was an interesting composition, even though mundanely formed.