Winter White with Purple Martin House — Gallery CanvasA snow covered winter landscape with a Purple Martin house in the foreground the martin house empty and snow capped, the surrounding trees bare and white, the whole scene in the blue white palette of a clear winter day. The martin house that very human addition to the summer yard sits in the painting as a promise: the martins will return. Glen's winter landscapes often include these notes of human presence or absence the bird feeder, the martin house,