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A majestic Quaking Aspen with a charmingly curved trunk, bathed in the warm glow of an autumn afternoon, its brilliant green and yellow leaves rustling gently in the breeze. Photography + Digital Painting Effects

Beginning at the upper left, a lone labyrinthian line dilly-dallies its way across the sky and down into a large beckoning daisy that is growing profusely in a sandy mix of dunes and tall grass. Spiraling and boustrophedoning here and there, the line finally and eventually completes its journey in the very center of the exhausted flower. Pencil Drawing + Astute Graphics/Illustrator Tracing + Photoshop Coloring

A cold cap of snow balances atop the leaned-over head of a once majestic tall sunflower, Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects

A glorious bright sunflower with an abundance of seeds and artfully curling petals and leaves basks in the painterly light of a beautiful New Mexico morning. Photography + Digital Painting Effects

A theatrically austere view of magnificent Aspen trees, the painterly leaves of Fall surreally white in the uppermost reaches against a darkly dramatic blue-gray sky. Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico Photography + Digital Effects

A symmetrical view of Ponderosa Pine tree rings, bathed in warm glowing light, the tree itself having fallen by the wayside, its life recounted in the topography displayed upon its stump. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

A brilliant yellow Cottonwood leaf has fluttered to the ground, having completed its purpose and its journey; now preserved in all its glowing splendor, but never to be seen again upon the tree. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

A brilliant yellow giant sunflower just on the verge of bursting into a profusion of nourishing seeds stands majestically against a blue blue sky decorated with squiggling embellishments of summery delight. Photography + Digital Painting Effects

Playful organic shapes swirl about with the lyrical petals of a giant sunflower that is bent upside down from the weight of its bumper crop of seeds. Photography + Digital Effects

Soft glowing petite purple flowers of a Pineapple Lily bathed in morning light, against a luminous background of lime green leaves. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A delicate trace outlines the beaming yellow petals of cheerfully blooming sunflowers. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

A magnificent giant sunflower with cheerful streaks of painterly mischief faces brightly into the warm summer sun. Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects

A swirling soft breeze surrounds a bright yellow festival sunflower with eighty nine satiny silk petals and petite five-petal florets surrounding the Fibonacci whirl center. Astute Graphics/Illustrator Drawing & Coloring + Mesh Tormentor/Photoshop/On1/Topaz Digital Effects

Tracing the delicate vanishing paths of life in an Autumn Cottonwood leaf, bathed in golden light, leaving only a shadow of the long hot journey through Summer. Photography + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects

Spring lilac blossoms, rippling in delicate pink shimmers, the fragrance so sweet, whispering sunshine perfume in blushing bundles of fresh flowering cheer. Photography + Photoshop/On1/Topaz/Filter Forge Digital Effects

A plume of Goatsbeard seeds patiently awaits the inevitable wind, the light and feathery gossamer parachutes all puffed in anticipation to be floating away upon the breeze. From a photograph of Western Salsify in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

A vibrant mandala sun in a dramatic dark cloudy sky shines upon a field of tall flourishing single blades of grass. Illustrator & Photoshop Painting + Photography & Digital Effects

New Mexican Desert Thistle - a beautiful flowering plant that grows throughout the Desert Southwest. This delightful specimen is from the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Cheerfully blooming soft purple, yellow, and cream Snapdragons, delightful in the garden and as a fine art print on the wall! Photography + Digital Image Effects

Beautiful large Split-Leaf Philodendron leaves, basking in a luxurious gold and copper glow. Photography + Digital Image Effects

An early autumn Aspen leaf on its final journey drifts down and gets caught temporarily in the needles of a Ponderosa Pine branch. Photography + Digital Image Effects

A field of bright and cheery sunflowers, merrily waving in the summer breeze. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Aspen leaves and Ponderosa Pine needles, adrift in a miniature ice floe. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

The bright and sunny disposition of an Orange Sneezeweed Daisy makes me feel happy all over :-) Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A bumper crop of giant striped sunflower seeds, cheerfully facing the sun. Photography + Digital Image Effects

Beautiful Forest XI

Cactus and balloon

Cactus middle finger

King Cactus

Baby Cactus