It's an ill wind that blows no good

So Sunday was mostly a white.out of snowy squalls:

I said a white-out is white! I think you see that there is an actual photo between the lines. So while I was watching white, I noticed that there were occasional flecks of colour high up. Strange!

So I looked and waited

See what I mean about bits of colour?

The kite appears to ne about 10 meters across -

And the skier is on a snowboard, I think. Now if the person is 1.5m tall then, ...

I thought at times I could see 5 different kites, I am not sure if there are 2 or 3 kites in this last image.
The person is about 100m from me, about 50m off shore on some 20cm of powder snow on ice frozen to the bottom - very shallow in October when the lake level has dropped by 40cm,

WOB