Aside from everything else I love about "McCabe and Mrs. Miller", I love the characterization of snow, or should I say snow as a character. Snow was certainly something the western settlers had to contend with in a literal way. McCabe confronted snow in Mrs. Miller and ultimately in himself. Finally, snow is beautifully filmed in all of its states of being and impacts on people and nature in this movie, which is one of my favorites of all time.