Machare

Description: Lucci and the Automated Food Maker. Lucci the black cat loves Wes Anderson and food, so we did a portrait in that style.

Description: This fantasy digital series is built upon photos taken at the Oceanogràfic València, the largest aquarium in Europe. In it, viewers will find a colorful world of whimsical sea creatures from brilliant.y colored with intricate patterns fish, to beautiful corals, starfish and anemones. This piece features a whimsical Seahorses with beautiful colors and patterns. ©2023 Mary Machare

Description: DescriptionA honey bee works its way through my garden, up and down the Russian Sage.

Description: After the unseasonably cold spring, one 80 degree day was all it took to send flowers into bloom. Even the Scilla, which usually flower much earlier, kept their buds tightly wrapped until the warmer weather arrived. These are some of my favorite Spring flowers because of their blue color and airy stems which make them sway in the breeze are wonderful in the garden. Bulb forming perennial herbs, they are native to woodlands and meadows, and spread over the years to form a carpet of blue and green.

Description: Orange Queen Globe Flower bloom in the garden throughout summer, even during the dry season.

Description: Beauty reigns for a short time, then fades, with only its scent lingering in the night. This photo was taken in the Rosarium located in Baden bei Wien, near Vienna, Austria

Description: Dew on spring blooming, white bleeding hearts resembles tears.

Description: A honeybee alights on a pink sunflower during a sunny afternoon. For as long as I have had a garden, I have worked along side the honeybees as they flit from flower to flower. It has been of great concern that for most of this summer I had not seen honeybees in the garden August. I am grateful they finally arrived!

Description: Blue and yellow flowers brighten up the old watering can outside the garden shed.

Description: White bleeding hearts blooming in my perennial flower garden.

Description: Flowers I can count on include these regal purple columbines that burst out in bloom in late May.

Description: Nature's curves, sensual and sleek, formed by Turk's Cap lilies in a late summer garden.

Description: In winter the garden turns from a riotous display of color to shades of black and white.

Description: What says Spring like tulips greeting you outside your door in the early morning light?

Description: Even when hot and dry, the Blazing Stars never fail to grow tall and brilliant in the garden.

Description: With its emerald green, torquoise blue and amethyst petals, this flower in the Monserrate Palace gardens is a jewel of delight.

Description: Pink rose photographed at the Rosarium (Rose Garden) in Baden bei Wein, a small town near Vienna, Austria.

Description: Street vendors in Madrid, Spain, are part of the vibrant nightlife of the city.

Description: After weeks of cool temperatures and lots of rain, I stepped out to find my lawn strewn with nature's buttons… mushrooms of all types popping up everywhere. This little one, with its delicate ribs on the top side and rounded center looks like a Japanese umbrella.

Description: For coffee lovers everywhere... a 3D typographic coffee design complete with coffee stains!

Description: Lost worlds or lost marbles... a digital abstract.

Description: Walking past a cafe in Spain, I met this sweet, sleek black dog with a long face and soulful brown eyes. I decided to do his portrait as a colorful digital painting.

Description: The iconic red lighthouse reflected in the calm waters of Lake Michigan. This lighthouse is in Algoma, Wisconsin.

Description: The Compass Rose, which represents the different Celtic peoples, points over the Atlantic Ocean. This was taken in La Coruña, Spain.

Description: Castle of San Anton, the Island fortress in the bay of La Coruña in the Northwest of Spain.

Description: It was winter when the wind was blowing snow and ice against the windows of my room. I pulled my grandmother's quilt over my head and fell to sleep dreaming of Spring, of walking through the gardens, my legs brushing against green leaves and the soft petals of tulips in my hands.

Description: Boys running across the rocks at the ocean's edge in Cascais, Portugal, just west of Lisbon.

Description: A delightful row of old beach homes in Valencia, Spain. The houses sit on the wide, palm tree lined beach that leads to the Mediterranean Sea.

Description: Spain has amazing graffiti artists. I found this fascinating piece on a park wall in Valencia, Spain. Cubist - of course - it is Spain! I loved the arm which is reaching for the bottle on the table.

Description: Fishing under the Lighthouse at the end of the jetty in Port Washington, Wisconsin. This was a calm day on Lake Michigan.

Description: When it is summer on Lake Michigan, you will find many sailboats gliding past the lighthouse and out of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, harbor.

Description: A beautiful evening of sailing as the sunsets on Lake Michigan, near Algoma, Wisconsin

Description: The sculpture of Hercules on the Argonauts Ship overlooks the Atlantic Ocean off the rocky coast of La Coruña, Spain.

Description: One of the last days of a long indian summer finds Lake Michigan calm, the skies blue and the lighthouse at the end of the jetty glistening white in the afternoon sun. This was taken in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

Description: In winter I find myself dreaming of my garden and the flowers to come: the pink and cream roses, the purple iris, the thistle, delphinium, and columbine. The Kaleidoscope Series started as photos of bouquets of flowers from my garden, and were then digitally manipulated.

Description: Santa Marta Museum Lighthouse in Cascais, Portugal overlooks the Atlantic Ocean