Penstemon Visitor Size:12 x 24 inches

Penstemon Visitor Size:12 x 24 inchesBroad tailed hummingbird visiting a firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii). All penstemon species delight me with their bright flowers and the variety of pollinators they attract, but I love to have firecracker penstemon around mainly because this plants bright red flowers bloom in late spring and early summer just as Broad tailed Hummingbirds are arriving from their wintering areas in Mexico and Central America. Hungry from their long distance

Although all belong to a single species and intermix on the wintering grounds

Fall beauty helps strengthen my spirit with vivid memories to face the coming cold and sometimes drab colors of Colorado winter

Original: size Acrylic on Birchwood Box

Due to the shape of the shoreline and the dense shrubbery along the trail

From an original watercolor painting by Susan E

A chickadee brings winter cheer in this snowy scene featuring a chickadee on the berry-laden branches of a hawthorne tree

Open Edition Giclee' Print

and olive greens creating winter color for those who take the time to observe

but an amalgamation of what I see in my mind when I think of my mid-summer visits to that area

This plant's pink blossoms were alive with pollinating insects

Original: 14 x 25 inches Watercolor on illustration board by Susan E

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