A coating of snow seems to beautify to my mind. I know that Back East right now it isn't considered so much as beautiful as it is a problem! But we don't have snow all that often here in the Willamette Valley. Only rarely has it ever been a real problem, the extreme case happening in January-February of 1969 when we had four feet of snow on the ground. Normally, we look to the hills to see them beautifully dressed with a coat of snow, as this one I saw on a drive up the McKenzie River Valley. This is not a Christmas tree farm, it is high mountains where the trees are logged by the timber industry. Those trees are not small.