Snow is the great cleanser. What do you do with snow in a pic? Have it white? Grained? Blue and coloured? A ghostly delineator.

This image covers perhaps a 180 degree pan and is a decent enough record of a heavy fall of snow. The house becomes bloated and the normally insignificant trellis shape suddenly becomes the more interesting visual focus as it gives us a geometric unity in the face of the blandness of the snow. The array of trees and their buried branches also reminds me that if they were bare branches I would not question them. Their forms under snow become more unexpected and interesting. Circumstantially, the shape of the trellis is just about the same shape, inverted, as the side of the house, and this gives a balance of forms on the right hand side - a kind of dislocated circle.

Snow at least allows a natural white bleed to the rest of the world at top and bottom. We rarely question an image ending at the edges of a photograph. Object permanence. Despite knowing nothing lasts forever. Not even Christmas.

The left/right elements of the picture manage to give purpose to the extension. The horizon remains a straight line to left with vertical trees, while the bulging house and trellis are the inflated human parts under snow. You might notice the top right trees are a bit more in disarray. I think that steady/disruptive theme gives some purpose to the meaning of the parts.