What Colour is Snow?

We're talking about the clean fresh stuff, of course, not that brown snirt that lines roadways. Most people think snow is white. That's how we were taught to draw it as kids, after all. 

We beg to differ, though! We think it's (mostly) blue, sometimes violet,  occasionally with a hint of gold or pink late in the day.

We know some of you are sick of looking at the stuff after this past weekend, but here's how it looked out west in it's natural (non-blizzard) mid winter state on the 26th.