I like it.
Images like this are pretty difficult to get right - I know, I have had lots of failures over the years having had a roughly similar thought in mind (different bush, different hemisphere, different climate though).
You named the image "Tangled", but in fact, you are correct, if one takes the time to view this image it is possible to "untangle" its components and a fairly well structured image emerges.
In fact one, when viewing this image, is immediately caught up into it - there is no viewing this one from the outside looking in.
I can comment on the light and the colour, etc, but I won't - you know you nailed it.
All that is left to do is offer my congratulations - and express my admiration in your fortitude in being out in such chilly weather!
Tony Jay