Winter Orchard -- With or Without Color, Do You Think?

First, here's what trees and their shadows on snow look like in black and white:

Then here are the same shots with blue shadows and warm color in the tree bark. The blue shadows distract me, reminding me of The Color Kittens, one of my favorite childhood books. 

For me the blue is a distraction, but it does work better at signaling the crisp cold of the day.