Our backyard transformed by the first fall of snow

It is a marvel that snow could  visually transfigure anything so mundane into something so ethereal!  To quote British  author J. B Prestley ,"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? "