From snow to Ice storm...Part 1 - Plum Tree

Spring 2011

I absolutely 'love' this plum tree in my neighbor's yard. This is taken from our back yard. It's soooo gorgeous!

After a good rain and wind these pink blooms fill the sides of the street and it looks like 'pink snow'. It's so pretty!

January 19, 2012 - Winter

This same tree is beautiful with snow on it.

January 20, 2012 - mid-morning
We had freezing rain the day after the pretty snow.
See my previous post about, 'Yes, we do get snow.'

January 20, 2012 - late afternoon - too much ice!
This broke my heart! That gorgeous plum tree, so sad!

This is just after the ice thawed. It bounced back a little bit.

Our whole neighborhood that had these gorgeous plum trees got hit hard. They will all need a severe pruning, but I believe this will bounce back.

I added this picture since the original post. Today (January 26, 2012) my neighbor trimmed the plum tree. I went over and talked to him and he is hoping it will not go into shock and that it will bounce back. We are both hopeful! :o)

I showed him a picture that I did with our daughter Kirsten that was inspired from his plum tree. Kirsten did this about 3 years ago when she was in her last year of high school. My neighbor liked her picture. It's a treasure for me!