different kind of tree

Took a glass etching (sand blasting) class years ago, thought I'd make the tree into a Mandala. I like the blue-ish color and the sort of 'sand dollar' appearance in the middle.

waiting for spring

'To op their trunks the trees are never seen. How then do they put on their coats of green? They leaf them out, they leaf them out!' this is a song I learned long years ago and at the end a hand gesture of opening. Ready for Spring!

Frosted trees

Frosted trees on Rabbit Ears Pass after a big snow.

May Snow

After Mother's Day it's supposed to be OK to put tender plants out with the expectation that it will no longer freeze. It was 32 last night with SNOW. Forgot to take down the umbrellas so one is broken, another bent under 8 inches of wet heavy snow. Oh well, this to shall pass.

Snow

We only got 6 inches down in Denver Area, but the mountains are headed toward a record snow for January - 5 to 10 feet!! Unfortunately with that much snow come avalanches. There were many road closures for avalanche cleanup yesterday. I thought my tree out front looked like it had pillows of snow on the ends of the branches.

ribbon decorated tree

I had fun with this one, with the repeated patterns of the ribbons festooning a tree in a courtyard.  We were visiting Sedona last year when I found this, also liked the mosaic effect in the middle.

Winter Sunset

A winter sunset - I liked the silhouette of the trees reaching out from the edge of the earth.

Picture of the branch

The branch that is in the previous mandala.  It's suppose to be in the 50s today with no wind!

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. 

Aspen2

Original Picture.  Never seen such red aspen.

Aspen

The aspen turned bright colors this year, from red to orange to their usual golden colors.  There were 4 trees in a row that had turned a bright red-orange.  They just stood out on the edge of a field near the road. 

Rosecrans Cemetery

Just came back from a trip to San Diego, we went to the Cabrillo National Monument to see the tidal pools on the ocean side of Point Loma and passed Rosecrans National Cemetery with rows and rows of white headstones. San Diego has a big Naval pressence. You can see the bay and downtown San Diego on the edges of the Mandala after following the radiating lines of headstones.  The cemetery caps the peninsula, out to sea it looks like a solid line of white.

apricot tree in bloom

This tree always blooms first and then there is a freeze and there is no fruit to follow.

It is beautiful when it is blooming!  Like the tree is covered in snow.  I like the airy quality of this mandala.  It is taken up at the sky, which was very blue that morning.

colorful bark

Bark of a sycamore tree color enhanced a bit, neat colors.

Red bud tree

red bud tree flowers in front of a store window and shadows on the concrete.

cottonwood

A cottonwood tree at the Cherry Creek Dog Area where 2 trails meet lays on it's side along one bank. It has been the focus of a couple of my mandala. It has always intrigued me. The blue in the middle is the Cherry Creek. We have had a couple mild weeks here in the middle of January, warm enough to take the dog on a walk. It's a nice hike except for the mud! I liked the way the image of the trunks came together in the mandala.