MOC6 Rollers

JOURNALING: Many of us have driven by farm fields during the growing season and seen huge round bales of hay. Interestingly, we owe this sight to an engineer and graduate students at Iowa State University. According to "Living History Farms," in the mid-1960's, they developed a machine that could bale hay into these huge 700 lb. round bales. It is the most common way hay, which is used for animal feed, is stored in the United States.
But, not many of us have seen the weather phenomenon known as "snow rollers," large round rolls of snow that look very much like a frosty version of the hay bale. Conditions have to be just right for them to occur. You need a thin layer of loose snow on the right surface at the right temperature. Underneath, you need ice or powdered snow to form a base for rolling. Then you need wind at just the right speed, neither too slow nor too fast (Goldilocks, anyone?) I was lucky enough to see this sight one winter about 16 years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera! DARN IT!
TITLE: Rollers (winter and summer)
CREDITS: LARGE PHOTO: Pixabay; MEDIUM PHOTO: Flickr; TEMPLATE: MOC 6 2020 Scrappable Stackables - Lynn Grieveson and Nifty Pixel; KITS: "Weathered Landscapes" - Lynn Grieveson; "Heartsong" - collab; "Summer Mornings" - Sabrina Dupre: FONT: Times New Roman