I love your subject and you've captured it well, but the colours are very off-putting to me - maybe reduce the saturation, even as far as making it monochrome?
Nice composition and the photo is sharp. I like the haze in the shot, and the branch connects with the challenge theme. The hue is alittle pinkish, not sure I like that, but overall a good shot 6
Beautiful and serene scene. I do think it needs a little something extra in the scene to turn it from a static background image into something dynamic for that higher score.