A "snowscape" is a landscape covered with snow. When the snow falls heavily enough to transform the scenery to a blank, white slate, people become mesmerized by the fresh, quiet, blanketed earth and the feeling that change is near.
Sometimes, in more Northern States, even the landscape features themselves can change shape under the snowfall: tree branches break under the snow's weight, cars and small outcroppings become blanketed so much they resemble hills, and the ground itself becomes new and different.
When it snows, the sun and the moon are reflected by the wet, white piles of snow, transforming the actual light in any given region into something new, sparkling, and magical. The falling snow can block visibility only feet from your face, making your field of vision far shorter, blurring the distant horizon line.
It's no wonder that for centuries landscape artists have sought to capture the way the snow transforms familiar landscapes into completely new territory. A season in which white-furred and white-feathered animals flourish, as well as the occasional bright red cardinal, winter is a time to sit back and reflect on the beauty of the land even as it changes.
