Part of the set Ruinous Beauty: www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/sets/1232701/

Slowdive in concerto all’Alcatraz di Milano. Foto di Davide Merli per www.rockon.it

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Part of the set Ruinous Beauty: www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/sets/1232701/

I used a couple of PShop filters, ending up w/ the watercolor filter

Part of the set, Canyon & Desert in Springtime

Part of a new set of just trees, The Soul of a Tree

steamy window

sunrise

greenery

relaxed

in water

watching

the sky

lighten

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Companion plants in our Garden -- oops - forgot to mention the Marigolds. Sorta helps keep the deer away (and aphids, I've heard.)

looking up from a steamy bath at the gradually lightening eastern sky ... spider plants hanging down make it feel like a jungle.

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Crete wildflowers

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This is part of the set,Home & Studio here

Life unfurls in beauty. There is hope in the blossoming.

Part of the set, Crete.

closeup of meadow stones blanketed with really old lichen patches. I love this color.

Slowdive in concerto all’Alcatraz di Milano. Foto di Davide Merli per www.rockon.it

Slowdive in concerto all’Alcatraz di Milano. Foto di Davide Merli per www.rockon.it

Part of a new set of just trees, The Soul of a Tree

This is part of the set,Home & Studio here

Colors bear the metaphors of entire cultures. They convey every sensation from lust to distress. Flowers use colors ruthlessly for sex. Moths steal them from their surroundings and disappear. A cactus spine glows red-gold in the angle of sun, like an electrocuted aura.

From "The Anthropology of Turquoise" by Ellen Meloy

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part of the set Dead of Winter here: www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/sets/1776610/

Part of the set, Last Light: www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/sets/564186/

Part of the set, Canyon & Desert in Springtime

crisp crinoline

or plump plaster cast-offs

these hopeful flower remains

wait, ready to release

their promise of new life, to

give it back to the soil

their seeds held safe

inside withered flesh

An old snag, caught in silohette against a perfect blue Montana sky ... the sun just behind one of the large limbs. This Ponderosa Pine snag is a result of a lightening strike.

Part of the set, Crete.

Part of a new set of just trees, The Soul of a Tree

This is part of the set,Home & Studio here

Slowdive in concerto all’Alcatraz di Milano. Foto di Davide Merli per www.rockon.it

I saw this glowing white groundcover all over the hillsides in the "civilized" parts of Crete

This is part of the set,Home & Studio here

This is part of the set,Home & Studio here

Part of the set, Crete.