I spent a couple of weeks on Lake Biwa in Japan in February 2025 when a snow storm blew in from the East. Each day I would travel up the Western shore of the lake photographing an ever increasing snowy landscape. People would relentlessly come out of their houses to sweep away the snow every morning only to wake up the next day to discover yet another 6 inches had fallen over night. This little house in Takashima managed to escape their shovels and so became more and more immersed under a blanket of snow as the days passed.