The last of the cold spell

I think I can say for sure now what plants survived the deep freeze and which ones did not. Both beavertail are dead and oozing black liquid. The bottlebrush is dead. The oleander on the west side of the house look crispy. The potato shrub looks dead, too.

Life is coming back to the tacoma stans. The Mexican sage is also showing growth. The Russian sage is reproducing new stems nearby. Once I remove all the dead leaves I've left on the shrubbery for frost protection the front yard will look nice.

One thing I have to do, though, is set up the ScareCrow so that the neighborhood cats stop coming to the front yard bird feeder. I'm really getting tired of seeing them waiting for the birds to fly down and feed.