Colorado’s San Luis Valley shows off some pretty interesting plants. Get up close to see some of the tiny details.
Someone needs to invent scratch-n-sniff blogging…
On this day, dark gray clouds enhanced the colors of the world. Greens emerged more emerald. Blues turned a deeper violet. Yellows brightened in contrast, and pinks, reds and purples deepened their blush. This is for Mom and Jerry. LYMY.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. 
Swirling Wind and Rain.
Lilacs Have Come, Spring Has Sprung.
Pink, Purple and White.
A Breeze Sways the Branch.
Heavy Flowers Back and Forth.
Lilacs Drip With Rain.
Now, Sparkling in Sun.
The Lilacs Cheer My Spirit.
Beautiful Flowers.
(Marie M. Daniels)
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
— Gertrude Stein.
One rose viewed in different ways is still the same rose whether uplit, backlit, spotlighted or highlighted.
When most plant life outside is hibernating, it’s nice to have pretty tabletop nature inside. I managed to coax a funny looking bulb into this graceful bloom.
Title quote by R.H. Heinlein
Today we visited the Butterfly Pavilion for the first time. It’s pretty cool. Bugs, spiders and other creepy crawlies thrive in (safe and secure) glass boxes under warm lights. Colorful fish, crustaceans and other wiggly, swimming, little sea creatures pass the time in what appear to be giant fishbowls. Brave little kids let a scary, hairy tarantula named Rosie, crawl on their hands. (I get the shivers just thinking about it.) I put on my big-girl pants and touched a big horseshoe crab (only for a second and with permission).
My favorite part of our visit was the Wings of the Tropics exhibit: a lush, humid, tropical garden filled with exotic plants and flowers with graceful curves and seductive swoops that have names I can’t pronounce without great effort. The tropical colors are incredible…bright reds, pinks and fuschias, deep velvety greens, electric blues, brilliant yellows and warm golds. A gentle mist filters into the garden keeping both sturdy plant leaves and fragile flower petals blanketed in sparkling diamonds of water drops.
Most incredible though are the beautiful, fluttering butterflies that fill the air. Their colorful wings propel them silently about like hosts of swirling angels. Sometimes you can’t even see them; nevertheless, you know they’re there. If you’re lucky, one will alight on your sleeve. Like being kissed by an angel.
It snowed in Denver today. The first white snow of the season is always bittersweet…beautiful to look at, but it’s messy driving. The still leafed-out trees weighed down with nature’s white burden caused power-related problems, broken trees and insurance claims.
It was still pretty – the white, that is.
According to empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com, the color WHITE is significant because it symbolizes “innocence and purity. White is the beginning of everything, before anything is muddied or thinking is ‘colored’. White represents the clean slate, helping us through times of stress, and allowing us to put the past behind us and preparing us to move on. White represents the positive as well as the negative aspects of all colors. It contains an equal balance of all the colors of the spectrum.”
Rest easy, snow-bound compatriots; after all, white is just another color. White means so much more than snow.
In fact, I am posting photographs of things that are white, but not snow – just to prove my point!
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