I have only seen snow a few times in my life, even less so in my native state of Texas. Houston's climate is classified as "subtropical".

The winter landscape as a genre did not exist for most of art history, as the landscape itself: painting nature for nature's own sake, did not exist for most of European art history.

Trees are important in winter landscapes, they add so much character to a scene that would ordinarily be featureless.

Silence is a close up of a trail of shoe prints in the nook of some evergreen trees. The texture of Gustaf Fjaestad's paintings borders on pointillism and the snow in this work looks particularly light and fluffy, like powdered sugar.

Lawrence Oates, a member of the doomed South Polar journey party of the Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913, the goal was to be the first to reach the South pole of Antarctica, however, after marching for hundreds of miles and reaching the pole they realized they were beaten by a Norwegian party that had set their flag there weeks earlier.

To walk away from civilization, leaving everything behind, stroll into the frigid air and gradually become more and more numb, until I laid down in the snow and drifted away. Maybe that’s the allure and danger of these places, like an anglerfish.

These photos come from a Brooklyn park as she went for a walk after dark. It’s always so tempting to believe you’re experiencing a unique emotion at a unique point in time, but Kate Milford destroys this idea.

The snow preserves Karl for now, but will melt away with the coming of Spring. Country Road in Winter is a snowy landscape with a dark red road and trees.

Hollow by Aron Wiesenfeld is an outwardly unsettling painting of a girl deep in a winter forest, staring into an abyss in a tree.

Throughout all of Wiesenfeld’s paintings there is that silence, no character speaks, no answers are given.

But the sun will always rise again, no matter how bleak the night before, Morning after the Snow at Koishikawa in Edo is one of the thirty-six views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai.

Recently, a photo of Mount Fuji without its signature snow cap went viral, along with roughly this headline: Mount Fuji Snowless for Longest Time in 130 Years.