Carved

Have you seen pictures of the amazing sculptures the wind carved in frozen sand along the shore of Lake Michigan recently? As much as 15" high, they have been likened to chess pieces. They replicate in 

a matter of days forms we're more used to see as the accumulated work of thousands and millions of years of erosion. I think they're awesomely time scale-jangling but a Texan friend declared: "Unfair!"