“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” Andrew Wyeth
tattered snowcrow
winter ride
rooster on guard
flurry hen
bovine scrutiny
snow nose
queen's winter palace
waiting to whirl again
patient gnome
Bit of Earth Farm 
I love the vertical nature of this time of year, where the subtlety of tone and shadow are quietly present.
You speak like a poet and observe like an artist. Hmmm.