Happy New Year!

Outside, it's cold, snowy, windy.

Roses in the warm indoors,

owl's eyes peer out of the mysterious centers.

Welcome to my rosy world!  I have always loved nature, wild and domestic, meandering through it, reading about it, breathing it, viewing it in or from a warm room or the botanic gardens or a cold mountaintop or a lavender field in Provence. (Note to self: It's getting crowded, even early. Better spend more time outside NOW before it totally mutates or disappears. Al Gore's presentation on global warming was scary.) The camera equipment? It's getting heavier. But I feel naked without it. Later, I spend too much time in front of the computer, optimizing, enhancing and sometimes creating new images based on nature and objects I painted or arranged. You get the picture.

In the past, as a member of the Colorado Nature Camera Club and member/webmaster for the Flatirons Photo Club, my images of the Rocky Mountain region and the West have placed favorably in monthly competitions.  Boulder County Arts Alliance and Boulder Arts Association membership have given me the opportunity to appreciate and learn from other art forms. 

Shows include Louisville's 12th Annual Juried Photography Show 2003, Lafayette Art Center's Mixed Media Art Show 2003, the Thompson Valley Art League Photographic Juried Exhibition 2003, Boulder Art Association's Juried Photographic Show 2004, Louisville's 13th Annual Juried Photography Show 2004, the Thompson Valley Art League Photographic Juried Exhibition 2004, Lakewood Art Council's Juried Intimate Floral 2005 Show, Louisville's 14th Annual Juried Photography Show 2005 and Boulder Art Association 2005 Member's Show in Colorado.  "McAllium" was awarded Best of Category at the 2005 LAA Juried Photography Show. March 2007 - Display at the North Boulder Recreation Center in Boulder, Colorado.  August 2007 - BCAA display at Barnes & Noble on 30th and Pearl Street in Boulder, CO.          

My cute little cocker spaniel  also loves the outdoors and so she (wag, wiggle, wag)  is reflected in my photography as well.

May you have many opportunities to appreciate the nature we have now.

Peace.

Spring is here!

Calypso orchids,

Colorado wildflowers.

can you believe it,

have faces.

Get on your knees, creeee-aaak,  and look. They do!

Sometimes, bugs sit on their heads. Funny.

Summer's end approaches.

Outside, it's hot, hot, hot;

time to head into the cool mountains.

Elephant's heads, wildflowers

complete with eyes, trunks, and ears;

I visualize the big ones

caring for the small ones.

Fall.

The ptarmigan are changing color

from summer browns to winter whites.