We went to Des Moines for Christmas.  They got about a foot of snow a few days before we got there, and I really thought it would less evident.  I didn’t think it would be gone, but the snow still adhered to trees and things more than I expected. That allowed me to get some good pics.

OK. now full disclosure:  Both of these are after some serious photoshop manipulations.  For the first one, I created two layers.  The exposure on the bottom layer was about -2, and the exposure on the top layer was about +1.5.  I then masked the top layer and brushed out everything above the buildings.  For the second picture, I did a similar thing, only I made a gradient mask for the top layer going through about the center of the picture.