Van Gogh's snowy, snowy bench

Started out as a desperation blip, but turned out looking almost like a study in pointalism.
It snowed about 14 inches last night at our house, perfect crystaline snow with lots of beautiful, perfect snowflakes. Mr. Photonovice plowed the driveways out, but left the walk to the front door for me. The benches looked sort of lonely, so I shot them, but the angle is wrong and the flash far too bright on the glittery snow. So, in defiance of the homework assignment looming over me, I decided to play a bit and see what happened.

I like the effect. What do you think?