more spring flowers

Loved the pastel colors in this cross shaped mandala.

morning susnrise

I enjoyed the soft pastel colors in this picture and the geese flying. They really were in a 'V' formation as they went by, the kaleidoscope program made it into a tighter 'V'.

Grape Hyacinths

Grape hyacinths are blooming! Spring is starting.

geranium

The purple color of this is a geranium makes it for me and the crown around the middle. We had a freeze last night, but the sun is shining in a bright blue sky today! Enjoy the day.

pansey

A Spring flower again - a pansy. Weather is in the 50s here while the East Coast gets hammered with snow and cold. Crazy times in the weather department. Belated Happy New Year greetings.

the orchid

Here's the whole orchid.

Pasque Flower

Took a trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens to see what flowers were out - lots of tulips, but other things as well.  The Pasque flower above is an early flower, it has fuzz hairs to keep it warm especially at higher altitudes.  They were very abundant in the rock garden section of the gardens.  I loved the way the green parts crisscrossed and the fuzziness added a softness to the above mandala. 

Spring again

Spring is back, with the birds singing and the trees leafing out.  (Those that survived the crazy freeze  last fall)  Above is the purple lilac starting to bloom.  The tulips were out at Denver Botanic Gardens and this morning's news said that there was a fairy tulip affair going on in Boulder today! 

White Morning Glory

White is always a hard thing to photograph because it's so easy to blow out the detail on anything white. The throat of the flower has a pink/purplish hue and the stamens are visible with some detail in the whitest part of the flower. They were a delight to behold even if they were hard to photograph.

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.  

Zentangle 3

I left some of the paper white in this zentangle, not much, but some.  To me it looks like a colorful pen being put to the paper drawing the thick light blue line.  I will post the Tangle I took it from next time. 

doodle to Zentangle

No this is not a flower - I have doodled on paper all my life and this is one of the doodles I saved, scanned, turned into a kaleidoscope and filled with color.  At the present time I have this desire to color everything with primary very bright, colors.  When you take a photo you are presented with the colors that come thru the view finder, some of them in the case of flowers can also be very bright. But to pour my unlimited color choice out with the Photoshop paint bucket feature is fun!  This is all because of an new fad called Zentangles!  Google it.  The structure of Zentangles give my doodling a purpose.

Violet violet

The color purple, I like it. My fragrant violets are up and perfuming the air, you have to bend over to smell and to look at them, they are just tiny flowers.  The deeper color is from the shadowed throat of the flower. Even our latest snow and cold snap didn't affect these little flowers.