Awesome post. While you were talking about snow, its a two sided coin. One side for the adults which comes with so much work except

I have been to England a few times and to me winter is the most depressing part of the year :) It's cold so you can't do much outdoors stuff and it gets dark early so that adds to the whole depression factor. On top of that you have to go through the whole hassle of wearing coats, scarves, de-icing cars, clearing snow, shovelling driveways. I swear if it wasn't for christmas winter would be a hell of a lot more depressing than it actually is. I wonder why people yearn about it too.

On the bright side I think we need winter to make us appreciate how awesome summer is. Without winter many wouldn't have summer to look forward to.
About the "snow" photography, i agree with your statement of
If the blacks were denser, it would appear as if done by a "bleach bypass" process. I didn't go for this because the atmosphere of low contrast works way better got me looking deeper.For me, i had something to notice. For the fact that you used that low contrast, a lot of distractions are minimized and that helps to guide your audiences eyes where you want them to be hence, the whole snow concept wasn't messed up. I also like the fact that there wasnt overcomplication in the picture, i guess it was the low contrast that did the trick. :)
Thanks for sharing @velimir. Great photography and reflection too.