I live up North of Spokane, Washington, and its miserable weather right now, it is snowing today, but was 46 degrees a day ago. The ground is frozen solid, and we have huge puddles of water to wade thru two or three inches deep with a inch of ice on the ground underneath. That ice does not melt because the ground is frozen two feet or more deep. If I went walking around with my camera, as clumsy as I am, it would be smashed in 10 minutes. We do have lots of evergreen trees, but no grass or other greenery left. We have hay and grain for our farm animals, and shelter from the rain and snow, but you can tell they do not like it when its like this.
There is lots of wildlife to photograph, deer come into our yard looking for any vegetation or food at all to eat, a squirrel and the magpies eat our cat food, eagles, vultures, and ravens and more gather along the roads to eat the dead roadkill, and there are some beautiful snow scenes up just a mile or two from here.
I was thinking I'd rather be in the South right now!