Snow on the Redbuds

I know I haven't posted for a while, but the weather is so odd I had to post.

The redbuds have been in bloom for at least two weeks now, probably three. The pear trees bloomed in late February and earlier this month but are now all leaves, no blossoms.
And then today it snowed.

The snow looks normal on the evergreens; looking at one of the evergreens, it just looks like winter. But if you look at the pear trees, you see the little clumps of snow on these green leaves, and it looks odd, because that isn't the way it's supposed to be. When it snows, the pear trees are all sticks and pointy, not bushy and green.

Even better yet are the redbuds. Redbuds have thin, delicate looking branches, and very dark too, and then small pink-purple blossoms that hug tight to the body of the tree. Pictures online make the tree look bushy and out of control, and I don't know why, because that isn't what they're like. And seeing the snow on them, the stripe of snow on the north side of that dark trunk, and then the white contrasting against the magenta...it's beautiful, but it's also strange, because, as I said before, that isn't the way it's supposed to be. But maybe it is, because despite it looking so wrong, the colors and shapes look so right.

I think the problem with the pictures online of redbuds is that the tree's delicacy and the colors and the exquisiteness can't really be captured, unless you get very close in, and yet getting too close in doesn't let you see the tree.
And if the redbud as it is can't be captured, then the snowy redbud definitely can't be.