Its shots like these that keep me feeling as though I may never break through to become a professional level photographer. This series of shots made it through several screenings of mine, and every single one of them had the annoying twigs in the foreground. Hopefully I'll take this as another learning experience.
Regardless, as the wind blew the snow from the trees into sunlight I snapped about 30 pictures, and other than the horribly annoying twigs in the foreground, I'm very pleased with the overall result. Hope you like it.