Clouds came on and hid the early morning sun, but you are not looking at snow here. This is sand. These are sand dunes near Lake Michigan.
I posted images of birches, both the spectacular and the moribund. This is how some of them look from across an open expanse of dune.
And below, another shot similar to one posted last year, a sketching in the sand of the path of the wind as traced by one small plant.
