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!

stripped cana with pink

Strips get me every time and the touch of an out of focus pink flower just added to the mandala. From a fun garden tour fund raiser. Enjoy!

dried leaf

Liked the texture of this dried leaf and the star that formed in the middle. No red for Valentines Day, but celebrate anyway!

aspen mandala

Just because had shown the aspen branch turning, now the trees.

it's officially fall!

Got to see lots of aspen over the weekend driving on I-70 from east of Vail to Denver. Glorious!

leaf edges

The previous mandala was taken from this picture. Edges are very important in how we see the world. They define where our vision goes, stops and travels around.

Colorful leaves

Took another trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens, the tulips are out and they are starting to put up the Calder sculptures to be featured this summer. The leaves in this mandala were inside in the greenhouse, I just loved the colors.

Engleman Ivy

Eagleman ivy turns a wonderful red in the Fall. It grows all over my fences

leaf color

Sometimes the pure color of things is so beautiful: these were three leaves, one orange with green veins, one red and one yellow. A nice fall mixture of color.

Leaves on the snow

Happy New Year! It's been cold and snowy here, so I added a snow mandala with fallen leaves. Bright blue sky here now with a warming trend in the forecast. 3 cheers!

green

Outside it is very white, snowy and cold, but there are still some colors to go in the wheel - thus green leaves of the water iris.

more blue

This is almost all blue sky, with the addition of some oak leaves.

Purple

Had to take a picture of the intense purple of this coleus that was in a large container. Hadn't seen such intense purple color before.

striped cana

A striped cana from the Botanic Gardens, the ribbons in mandala before made a striped pattern as well.  

Aspen

Another star shape in the middle.  It is fall in the Rockies and the aspen have turned.  There were a lot of red/orange colors this year. 

Green Philodendron

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Had fun being with family. Green healing colors above for those who over ate (me included).  A philodendron leaf with sun shining through it.

One Man Show

I am fortunate to have a one man show at the Jefferson Unitarian Church, 14350 W. 32nd Ave in Golden, CO  80401 from September 1st to September 29, 2013.  The Church is open from 9:30 am to 4 pm, Monday thru Friday and open to view the work on Sunday from 12 to 1:30.  The work is in their sanctuary.  

gold orange and a touch of red

Aspen Gold with a touch of red.  After our last storm the aspen are gone now.  So I try to enjoy the pictures I took while they were at their peak.