[catpuppy]

Snow dunes on a frozen lake at twilight....with some plastic vegetation for effect?

Correct except for the plastic vegetation. It disintegrates in the Michigan winter. I think that the few like Sharkey who remain in the frozen north just pile up several loads of coal and pretend it's vegetation. In some respects it probably is.

[sweetliberty]

Poor thing. Spring better arrive soon or else next thing you know he'll be seeing bikini-clad beach bunnies strolling past his window with frosty, adult beverages.

Is that anything like a mirage? Tundra IS similar to desert in some ways.