Through the Seasons: A Rocky Mountain Front Range Native Wildflower Garden in WINTER 20 x 16 in canvas "caribou

Through the Seasons: A Rocky Mountain Front Range Native Wildflower Garden in WINTER 20 x 16 in canvas "caribouA native wildflower garden along the front range of the Rocky Mountains delivers beauty as well as habitat for birds and pollinators throughout the year. While the garden shrubs and flowers have lost nearly all their leaves and gone to seed, a native plant garden retains its beauty through winter. The winter remnants from previous seasons deliver colors and diverse shapes creating interest and stark winter beauty. Glistening white snow and blue

I saw mariposa flowers scattered widely in many places in the foothills where I had never noticed them in previous years

Great Horned Owls are the most common and best known owl in North Ameica

Real-life science stories from around the world

These prints offer lasting vibrancy and detail

and wetlands of central and western Colorado

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But I particularly enjoyed this heron which stood in shallow water at the edge of the shoreline grasses

Black-capped Chickadee on a spruce branch

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and sky combine in a dramatic January Sunrise at Gerlache Strait

I painted this image mainly to help myself memorize the traits and names of the five most common junco types that return to Colorado each fall and stay for winter