Last week it snowed in the wee hours of the morning.  Snow is rare where I
live.  When I awoke to go out to my studio, I noticed fresh footprints in
the solid 3"snow covering.  A man's cowboy boot tracks were accompanied by
a smaller child's foot prints.  They just started in the snow - with no
tracks other tracks in the undisturbed snow.  The footprints went up on the
porch of my studio, which was also covered in about 3" of snow, and they
went to the window.  I had not shut the curtains and had left a light on
inside. I had not locked my studio door but the footprints didn't even go
to the door.

I followed the footprints to the edge of a cliff a few feet from my studio.
 There was snow covering the rocks below.  But the footsteps just ended
there with no evidence of having gone down the cliff.  

My dogs did not bark ( as they always do when a visitor comes) or seem
disturbed.  I found no other tracks - even a vehicle.  I could not explain
it but for, some reason, I didn't feel disturbed at all.