Woman brings a bit of colour to snowfall

An environmental artist in Fargo, N.D., says she paints the snow on her home's yard a different coluor each time flakes fall.

While Fargo resident Stevie Famulari's front yard currently is pink, the landscape architecture professor at North Dakota State University is eyeing purplish blue snow for the next snowfall.

Famulari's color scheme, which includes darker colours as winter progresses, is intended to unveil a colorful rainbow when the snow finally melts.



"It'll be a beautiful rainbow when it comes back," she said. "Happily, I don't expect it to melt at the same rate so the front of the yard may reveal the pinks or the purples sooner, the back of the yard will still be the blacks and the blues."

Famulari said while some enjoy her colourful lawn and others are less supportive, it does serve as an intriguing conversation starter.

"Either way, it causes controversy and it causes people to talk and talking causes change," she said. "Like it or hate it, at least it's discussed."