Aloe Bloom

The Desert Botanical Gardens in Tucson had several aloe blooming.  It was much warmer down there - here in Colorado, we are going to get another Polar Vortex round with snow and cold this weekend.  I am grateful we are just on the edges of the cold and it warms up in between.  The Parkview show was very successful for me.  I sold 3 framed pictures, one of the ruffled white amaryllis mandala in previous blog entry.

Ruffled White Amaryllis

I liked the ruffles at the edges of this Mandala. It's a ruffled white Amaryllis from the Botanic Gardens.  I entered this picture in this year's

Parkview Fine Arts Festival

February 20-23!

 Opening reception tonight from 7-9

12444 E Parkview Drive

Aurora, CO 80011

Come by if you can it runs all weekend

a jack in the pulpit type flower

A 6-pointed flower star. I liked this flower and it's shape. It made for an interesting graphic presentation.

Prickly Poppy

Another 6-pointed star - thought I ought to have a white flower to represent the snow and cold we are now suffering through.  This has a bit of a 3 dimensional effect and feels like you could touch this flower (not the stem), a Prickly Poppy blossom with it's delicate papery texture..

another 6-pointed star

A 6 pointed star of Koi - a koi pond on my last visit to Hawaii.  If you look close you can see a black Koi next the the orange in the middle.  I love the fish and liked the pattern they made in the mandala.

Teasel Snowflake

Here is a true 6 pointed star (ie snowflake) of teasel

Almost like a snowflake

The Teasel plant has a very distinctive seed head which at one time was used as a comb to raise the nap on wool fabric.  I liked the sharp edges of these plants; this picture is sort of a reverse silhoutte.  It snowed unexpectedly this morning, so I went looking for this 'snowflake' mandala.