We tend to have gray cloudy days in January in the Yakima Valley. The fruit trees are barren of fruit and leaves, the snow is sparsely scattered on the ground. All of this makes a perfect scenario for a black & white photo. When processing this photo, I just gently touched the saturation level. All of this to say that we are experiencing lots of black, gray & white in Central Washington these days.
Beautiful photo!
I love the symmetry as well as the emotion it expresses!