Yeah the trees changed green in my town yesterrday as well. I woke up, couldn't figure out what looked different.. or why things seemed different, so I googled the answer and found out that the trees were brown in the winter. I can't stand the snow and I really can't wait until it melts. I live somewhere IRL where the snow stays on the ground for 5 months straight and never melts, and it gets really ugly after a while. Seeing green trees in NL was pretty refreshing.
I wish NL had a feature where it would snow, the snow would stay on the ground for a week, disappear, then come down again, stay on the ground, and disappear. In the less colder parts of the world, that's how it works.
I do have to say, I'm really glad the snow goes away in Feb. +_+ Spring in reality starts at the end of March, so if it stayed until March that would really suck.