Snow is a wonderful medium for creating impressions through the tracks of animals or humans or the melting that happens around objects as the sun shines on them.

Goose tracks beside part of a tree branch.

A recently fallen oak leaf ‘burns’ its way into the snow.

At this time of year the sun is much stronger and anything that falls onto the snow reflects less of the sun’s infra-red radiation and so will melt the snow underneath it while the surrounding snow stays frozen.

A human has walked in slushy tire tracks.