ripples

I was at the FLat Tops Wilderness Area This past weekend. At this small pond fed by snow melt you could see clear th the botom. Ripples in the pond make interesting patterns and colors since the colors are a reflection of the sky and surrounding plants

morning glory

It intregues me when you have to look hard to tell negative space from positive space, as with the picture above. The shape that stands out is the shadow. The purple morning glory is on the edges of the circle. I did another like this with a picture of a blue morning glory, it was juried into a show last year. They are beautiful flowers, but only open in the morning, thus the name, morning glory.

anotherversion of red white and blue

This has a feel of celebration pom poms waving in the air. The red and white flower is from an ivy geranium and the blue berries are from an oragon grape bush. I am thankful for a much cooler day today, maybe somewhere it will help with the forest fires, too. The sunset was very red last night.

artemisia

For these 11 plus days of 90 degrees or more of heat, I give you a heat tolerant plant artemisia - any of a genus (Artemisia) of aromatic composite herbs and shrubs (as sagebrush) ((courtesy of Miriam Webster)). Most of the plants with silvery or gray leaves are heat tollerant. We humans just survive the heat!

Columbine, Colorado's State Flower

Most of the time you are presented with the front side of the flower with its blue and white petals with gold stamen. However the lines created by the spurs behind made an interesting mandala.

red, almost white and blue

There are white centers in the red flowers! Have a Happy 4th of July

wod heart

Walking by a dry creek, I came across this fallen tree with an ineteresting bend at the bottom. I have seen aspen with this bend at the bottom but not many pines. It is caused by the heavy snow shifting down a slope when a tree is in the way, especially younger trees they get bent by not being able to withstand the pressure of the snow. They are stiill reaching for the light, trying to stay straight, but end up looking like the letter "J". In this case the bottom of the "J" had been stripped of bark allowing the grain to show making a heart shape in the mandala.