from a boquet

From a boquet of flowers.

White Rose

Even with the hail the white climbing rose put on quite a display. Sort of looked like an explosion in the middle appropriate for all the fireworks we had going off here!

Early 4th of July greetings!

It's on the hot side today - I know a lot of you are hotter Have a Good Day no matter the temperature!

going to seed

We are still going to have 90s this weekend but cooler weather is coming! Things are going to seed, nature herself saying get ready!

4th

Time for my flag mandala. My wish is for the unification of this country - "United we stand, divided we fall". Stay safe in the continued fight to beat this corona virus

debris

Part of Spring in the garden is cleaning up debris from the last year. These are dried grasses.

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.

cloud snow flake

another blue and white mandala, but this one is clouds and blue sky - the last one was snow and grape hyacinths! It's supposed to get to 70 today.

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!

dragon cloud

Have been cloud watching lately. Saw a dragon cloud on edge of this mandala. There is plenty of time to cloud watch but not today as there is a freezing rain at the moment. It has been nice to get out in the yard and watch spring come to my backyard! Small pleasures in our lock down life.

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!

waves

Looking for mandala with Water as the subject I came across this one taken of waves in Hawaii. it is titled "After the Crash" we were looking down on the ocean from above. Patterns that form in the process of making these Mandala always amaze me. There is almost a three dimensional ring mid way in the circle.

snow and more snow

It's great for the skiers but hard on the folks who have to shovel the sidewalks! After a while the piles are too high to stack any more, fortunately in the Denver area it does melt a bit. But more is expected Monday night! This mandala is snowy branches with ornament like images forming between the bigger branches.

Frosted trees

Frosted trees on Rabbit Ears Pass after a big snow.

a cookie mandala

A bit of early holiday baking turned into a circle! The tree makes an excellent "pie" piece for the kaleidoscope effect.

snow piles on the branches

We got 12 inches of snow at the end of October. It piled up on everything, to include the branches outside my window. When I took the picture there was no blue sky. Then I remembered my neighbor's blue truck was parked beyond the branches, thus the blue color in the mandala!

blown away

blown away

Blown away with the wind - the milkweed seeds; actually had a monarch stop by my small growth of milkweed when they were blooming, it was beautiful! We had a huge cold front blow in last night. It finally started snowing this morning; the cold is supposed to remain around for 3 days. No more summer! Did get all the houseplants safely stored inside out of harm's way.

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!

Clouds over the pass

Clouds billowing over Loveland Pass. I just love clouds!