More snowy balcony goodness

I know I already did a balcony post, but that was before dawn.  The sun has come out now and reveals the following:

Sunny, snowy balcony

What are those mysterious footsteps leading away?  And why is there a big black spot in the snow where they began?   Have I been visited by the Abominable Snowman?  Could he be some kind of pyromaniac?

These are the kind of thoughts you start to have when you’ve been snowed in for weeks on end, people.