Snow Scenes

I've done very little (actually, nothing) in the way of landscapes, but every time I see pine trees weighed down with snow, I feel the urge to grab my watercolor pencils and have a go at it. Here are a couple of photos I took from my back deck in December. Isn't that mist over the snow beautiful? I'd like to combine these scenes some way to show the soft, moody blue look of snow in the twilight.





My late mother-in-law, Hildegarde, was quite good at painting snow scenes. Here's one of her watercolors that I particularly like: