the old woman is plucking her goose → χιονίζει, ρίχνει χιόνι, πέφτει χιόνι, το στρώνειsnow settles (=stays on the ground)The snow was beginning to settle.
a blanket/carpet of snow
Within an hour, Bucharest was buried under a blanket of snow.
snow covers/blankets something
The ground was covered with snow.
snow | meaning of snow in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCEsnow I n. 1. to have ~ (we had ~ yesterday) 2. deep ; drifting ; driving, heavy ; falling ; powdery ; light ; wet ~ 3. crisp ; new-fallen ~ 4. ~
accumulates ; falls ; melts ; sticks 5. a blanket ; coating, dusting of ~ 6. across, through ; in the ~ (to play in the ~) 7. (misc.) to clear away, remove, shovel ~ ; as white as ~ = snow-white ; as pure as the driven ~ (see also fall of snow, snowfall at fall I n. ; snowball ; snowfall ; flake of snow, snowflake at flake ; snow flurry at flurry ; snowstorm at storm I n. 3)
— The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English