stripes

a A palm leaf created the stripes. and made for a drematic presentation.

New growth on the Catalpa tree

I got to watch the newgrowth on the Catalpa tree. I love their big heart shaped leaves.

Saucer Magnolia Bud

Always thought this looked alittle "space like". The Stars are the specks on the bark Anyhow it's fun to imagine

blue and green

Once in a while I like to play around in Photoshop. so I swirled a picture that had a blue gazing ball and other plants. Since I like circles thought I'd include it here, Enjoy the colors.

Merry Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner! Hope everyoone has a good one! .

Cana Circle

Cana Leaves in a circle this time. I just love the stripes.

another mandala of moring glory and corn

Had fun playing around with the corn and morning glory pictures. You have to be out early to see the morning glories open - heat of the day shrivels them up. There are good shadows in the morning, too.

Corn tasseling with a Morning Glory

blogger has a new system so you are getting the origin photo and the mandala at the same time. Don't know if I have any corn yet but the morning glories have been climbing all over it.  If I get out early enough the morning glories are beautiful.

Rain lily

Received Rain Lily bulbs a couple years ago - when I figured out they were not hardy in Colorado, I just stuck them in random pots. They seem to have come of age this year and are blooming all over in various pots. It is fun to get a bloom where you weren't expecting one! the ones in the picture were a bunch of 5 plus flowers that opened all at once!

close up of a morning glory

closer view of a morning glory

Morning Glory Stripes

My morning glories have started blooming, I have to look early as the sun destroys them in short order. I have pink, purple and one white one; the blue never materialized this year. Am glad for their return each summer. They are climbing any plant that is near them, like my pencil plant in this mandala, tomato cages and even the corn! Lines of the siding make the background.

geranium

The stalwart of the garden, the geranium! I keep sticking cuttings of my salmon colored geraniums in other pot so now have several plants now! you can always count on them for color in the garden. Liked the simplicity of this mandala.

new growth

New Growth has beautiful greens

more words

Saw these words on a T-shirt and liked them. My garden is my salvation in these times of staying home. The pumpkin and squash I planted are putting up their first leaves.

new leaves, new dinner menu

I watched this tree for a month, waiting for leaves to come out. The squirrel was watching too, nice new growth to feast on!

Flowers for Mother's Day

Got some roses earlier and will share the Mandala made from them! Have a good day no matter how you celebrate!

NOT the killer wasp

This is just a wasp in my backyard made into a mandala.

a warmer week ahead

Grape hyacinth in the snow, when it got down to 12 degrees I thought I had lost them but they are back standing up and looking fine now. We have 2 weeks of warmer weather and no freezes, however, this is Colorado, we usually don't plant anything tender out until after May 10th!

just for fun!

Wrapping paper from a Birthday party in March. I liked the bright colors and patterns and recombining them!

white cactus flower

A tiny white flower no bigger that a finger nail is blooming on a cactus in the sunroom. I'm just glad something is blooming!