Beauty and the Beast in a Winter Garden

Good and bad of the cold season

Today we ’re headed to Independence , Oregon , where Erla Richards is sharing some of the beautiful — and not so beautiful — faces of thewinter garden .

Many readers are look toward spring , as am I , but winter is not over . We have n’t had snow or methamphetamine in my part of Oregon for several years , so these are an accrual of photos of past days . These movie remind me ofBeauty and the Beast — the beauty of glassy methamphetamine hydrochloride - cover shrubs from freeze rain and the animate being of the impairment that shabu can do .

Beauty — ice - covered Bosnian pine(Pinusheldreichii , Zones 3–8 )

Pieris(Pierisjaponica , Zones 5–9 ) rosiness - to - do usher through the ice .

My bird still need to be fed , and they manage to get by .

A immature jacquemontii birch(Betula jacquemontii , Zones 5–7 ) bent to the basis from the weight of so much ice .

The beast side of the ice storm : the weight of ice was too much for this old oak tree .

Midnight snow falling on the jacquemontii birch .

sweetheart of the wintertime sky over the smuggled walnut(Juglanssp . , Zones 4–9 ) expect for spring .

A view of Mount Jefferson from my deck of cards .

The Oregon coast is placid and beautiful in the wintertime .

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