dried weeds

Dried weeds are about all that is in the garden here at the end of winter. There are interesting subtle colors, all is not gray. A couple things are blooming inside, did get some seeds in the mail and we will have several days in a row above 60. 3 Cheers!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Some Thanksgivings people are out playing golf over the Thanksgiving Holiday in Denver. Not this year, we have lots of snow still on the ground, an overcast sky and the threat of more snow tomorrow. Brrr Cold! Have a Good Day where ever you are!

caldron light

Caldron light from our Harry Potter Halloween Party, it's tissue paper!

Spring has sprung!

Crocus are up! 3 cheers! The red-winged black birds are singing up a storm. I'm sure there is still a snowstorm or two out there but things are starting to grow!

Resolution to continue to visit the Denver Botanic Gardens!

The new year is 2 days away. Resolve to continue to visit the Gardens! The mandala is the Chihuly Glass as seen during Blossoms of Light!

fish eye

Sometimes the oddest things grab my attention. There were these ceramic fish in a bowl that formed an interesting pattern, so I took a picture. We put our pond to bed for the winter and lost a koi in the process. Oh well.

pumpkin time

Pumpkins all around! Kaleidoscope of the pumpkin image.

sunny daylily

I have always loved flowers. They are colorful and come in many, many shapes. I was out early one morning when I found this daylily opening. In it's sunshine shape it is appropriate for all the sunshine we are going to get this week, already in the 90s.

curling petals

curling petals

I liked the curling petals and the colors of this daisy.

more spring flowers

Loved the pastel colors in this cross shaped mandala.

delicate butterfly cross

A different butterfly in the cross shape. Spring is officially here! am now patiently waiting for things to green up and start blooming!

black and orange and white

Another butterfly - I like the colors and the patterns!

butterfly parts

There was a collection of mounted butterflies in a case at the Butterfly Pavilion, to include a Blue Morpho and the edges of a swallow tail. Because there are spaces between the specimens there are spaces in the cross shape that do not have butterfly parts as well. Thought I'd try this as an experiment.

monarach butterfly

Went to the Butterfly Pavilion several years ago and thought I'd revisit what I saw in mandala form. Here's monarch wings

lotus center

Another summer flower - the center of a lotus.

dance of the stamen

The last three mandala have stamen-that's because they are at the heart of all flowers, also at the heart of the seed making goal of the flower - to provide for the next generation. Waxing philosophical here.

yikes!

Yikes - it's December already and Christmas is 22 days away! I have a wreath on the door and that's about it. Good thing there are still a few more days ahead. Image is the center of a hibiscus.

Pumpkin Orange

Happy Halloween!

painted ladies

Painted Lady butterflies are migrating through Denver area mid September. I have seen a lot of them about on my flowers. They are in the previous mandala and this cross.

study in orange

Butterflies again, saw some this morning flitting around my lobelia.