Backyard Abstract

Backyard beauty

Straight on this time.

A little more
balance

A little more color

BP Abstract Tuesday 1

Backyard Beauty

Taken outside with BBQ
cover as dark background.

Lines and Angles
and color too.

Yahoo!

 Roses Like Rain.

Quick walk in the garden
to check the roses while it
was sprinkling softly.
Amazing how rain makes
things so beautiful.

Pink Dogwood Painting

Much needed visit to a friend
who has a pink dogwood tree
in her yard.

Wonderful chat and
conversation.
So glad I took time
to go.

My attempt to make it
look like an oil painting.

Intimate Visions Show

Tree structure BW

Happy New Year!

Warm days make you look 

for shade for your rental car

with leather seats.

Image converted via Topaz Impression filter and then Nik Silver Effects Pro.

Christmas Cactus Backlight

Christmas Cactus taken on Christmas Day. Sunshine through the kitchen window. 2 stops overexposed to show the detail in the white.

Stressed Cactus All Painted Up

Taken In Arizona at the Desert Museum.
We have taken this image to many nurseries to try to find one that was red like this.
To our surprise, we were told that cacti are only red like this when they are stressed.
I have used the Topaz Filter Simplify with a painting setting that I tweaked from their basic painting set of filters.

Flore Pleno

Minimal Water self seeding
orange poppy that has been
blooming all summer despite
to lack of water in the yard.