I had high ambitions of taking pictures at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. Just as I walked up, a grounds manager was shoveling snow and informed me that Cheekwood was closed for public safety reasons. He was not the least amused when I begged him to let me snap "just one" photo (the above image). After I took this, he promptly nodded me to leave and then immediately shut the gate. Cold weather has a way of making us all less accommodating to the wishes of others, I suppose.