Tulip Garden Fantasy Squared II

A swaure format impressionistic study of a tulip garden. This mixed media piece was created with photography and digital hand painting for an impressionistic effect. Bright, bold spring colors include red, pink, purple, green, blue and yelloe hues. This is the second of pair of compatible pieces.

Tulip Garden Fantasy Squared 1

A swaure format impressionistic study of a tulip garden. This mixed media piece was created with photography and digital hand painting for an impressionistic effect. Bright, bold spring colors include red, pink, purple, green, blue and yelloe hues. This piece is one of two compatible works.

Cherry Blossom Art in Pink

A branch of pink cherry blossoms against a muted pink and green background - an art piece created from an original photograph and digitally hand painted and textured for artistic effect.

Cherry Blossoms First Blooms

A close up macro image of a few of the first pink cherry blossoms to bloom for the year, framed agains a spring green grass background at Branch Brook Park in Newark N.J. Branch The park has one of the largest flowering displays in the country with approximately 28 varieties of single and double blossoms and weeping cherries in shades of pink and white. When in peak bloom, the thousands of trees are truly a sight not to be missed. The shape of the petals, the blossom color and the bloom period vary depending on the type of tree. Originally from Japan and introduced to the USA as a gift of Japan, the most common varieties here are Yoshino cherry with pale pink flowers, Kawazu-zakura trees which are the earliest blooming with large pink flowers, Shidarezakura (weeping cherry).Yaezakura with large pink, multi-layered flower andf, Kanzan cherry.

Pink Cherry Blossom Cluster

A branch full of early blooming pink cherry blossoms with a hint of green and blue in the background, one of the first trees to open its buds at the start of the bloom season at Branch Brook Park, N.J. Located in Newark and Belleville, the park has one of the largest flowering displays in the country with approximately 28 varieties of single and double blossoms and weeping cherries in shades of pink and white. When in peak bloom, the thousands of trees are truly a sight not to be missed. The shape of the petals, the blossom color and the bloom period vary depending on the type of tree. Originally from Japan and introduced to the USA as a gift of Japan, the most common varieties here are Yoshino cherry with pale pink flowers, Kawazu-zakura trees which are the earliest blooming with large pink flowers, Shidarezakura (weeping cherry). Yaezakura with large pink, multi-layered flower and Kazan.

NY-NJ Hudson River Sundown Rainbow

A beautiful rainbow crosses the Hudson River From New Jersey waterfron into the sky over midotnw Manhattan after a day of rain and fog.

NYC April Rainbow

A beautiufl but very brief rainbow over New York City after a day of rain and fog.

Cherry Blossom Portrait

A close up macro view of a small cluster of pink Japanese cherry blossoms handing from a branch framed against spring green grass. This image was taken at Branch Brook Park in Newark N.J. as the first buds of the bloom season were opening. The park has one of the largest flowering ornamental cherry tree displays in the country with approximately 28 varieties of single and double blossoms and weeping cherries in shades of pink and white. When in peak bloom, the thousands of trees are truly a sight not to be missed. The shape of the petals, the blossom color and the bloom period vary depending on the type of tree. Originally from Japan and introduced to the USA as a gift of Japan, the most common varieties here are Yoshino cherry with pale pink flowers, Kawazu-zakura trees which are the earliest blooming with large pink flowers, Shidarezakura (weeping cherry). Yaezakura with large pink, multi-layered flower and Kazan.

NYC in Blue and Gold

A vertical formal image of the Empire State Building and other midtown NYC Skyscrapers with deep twilight hour blues and a last golden reflectionof sundown.

Yoshino Ornamental Cherry Tree

A view of a graceful yoshino cherry tree with white and pale pink blossoms framed against a blue sky seen at Branch Brook Park N.J. he park has one of the largest flowering displays in the country with approximately 28 varieties of single and double blossoms and weeping cherries in shades of pink and white. When in peak bloom, the thousands of trees are truly a sight not to be missed. The shape of the petals, the blossom color and the bloom period vary depending on the type of tree. Originally from Japan and introduced to the USA as a gift of Japan, the most common varieties here are Yoshino cherry with pale pink flowers, Kawazu-zakura trees which are the earliest blooming with large pink flowers, Shidarezakura (weeping cherry).Yaezakura with large pink, multi-layered flower and Kazan.

Yoschino Cherry Blossoms Blue Sky

A view of yoshino cherry trees reaching high above ground, their pink and white blossoms contrasted against the brilliant blue spring sky as seen at Branch Brook Park N.J. The park has one of the largest flowering displays in the country with approximately 28 varieties of single and double blossoms and weeping cherries in shades of pink and white. When in peak bloom, the thousands of trees are truly a sight not to be missed. The shape of the petals, the blossom color and the bloom period vary depending on the type of tree. Originally from Japan and introduced to the USA as a gift of Japan, the most common varieties here are Yoshino cherry with pale pink flowers, Kawazu-zakura trees which are the earliest blooming with large pink flowers, Shidarezakura (weeping cherry). Yaezakura with large pink, multi-layered flower and Kazan.

Branch Brook Lake and Cathedral

A view of the beautiful spectacle of spring at Branch Brook Park in Newark N.J.at the start of the season with flowering ornamental cherry trees and daffodils adding color in the foreground, Branch Brook Lake in the center and the lovely, stately Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in the background.

NYC Sundown and Twilight Blue

A view of the west side of midtown Manhattan and the Hudson River at twilight time with the last of the gold, orange and magenta sunset colors reflected in the Time Warner Towers and the sky.

NYC Blue and Gold Sundown

A view of the Empire State tower and mid-town Manhattan skyscrapers as they reflect the last sundown golden light and the twilight blue sky colors.

Garden Tulips Painted

An enhanced photograph featuring two pink tulips in a tulip garden, texturized and photo-ainted for impresionistic aratistic effect.

Tulips Red and Gold

A photograph of a section of a tulip garden featuring red and golden yellow tulips.

Daisy Delight

A close up view of a cluster of white daisies with yellow centers. Known as Engligh Daisies or Common Daisiers, they are native to  western, central and northern Europe, but widely naturalised in the Americas and other temperate regions. Cheerful and hardy perennials, they are seen around woodlands and meadows, as plantings and as cut flowers. Because of their growth patterns, they are considered to be invasive species by many. Daisies are also cultivated to create different varieties. Bellis is Latin for "pretty" and perennis is Latin for "everlasting". Daisies are associated with children and innocence.

Empire State Building Easter

The Emire State Building tower lit in pastel lights for the Easter holiday.

Raindrops on Yellow Tulip

A close up view of the center and inside petals of a yellow and orange tulip taken during a rain shower, with raindrops on the petals. .

Bleeding Heart Flowers

A horizontal forat view of a branch of bleeding heart plant with the pink and white heart shaped flowers dangling from the branch, with a spring green grass background. This is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Siberia, northern China, Korea and Japan. The outer petals are bright fuchsia-pink, while the inner ones are white. The flowers haver a heart shape, with a droplet beneath - hence the common name. The plant is also referred to as Asia Bleeding Heart, Lyre flower and Lady-in-a-bath.

Pinnk Kwanza Cherry Blossoms

A view of a cluser of pink, delicate looking ruffled Kwanza cherry blossoms.

PInk Tulips and Raindrops

A close up view of a few pink and white tulips in a garden patch dotted with raindrops.

Raindrops on Pink Tulip

A single pink partially opened tulip at the start of a rainshower.

Daffodil Field

A section of the daffodil bowl garden in bloom at Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit New Jersey.

Daffodil Garden N.J.

The beautiful daffodil bowl garden in bloom at Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit New Jersey

Red-Tailed Hawk

A Red-tailed hawk perched on a branch overlooking a daffodil garden.

Fritillaria Flowers

A close up view of a cluster of yellow bell-shaped fritillaria flowers, also know as Crown Imperial, Imperialis and Lutea These flowers are in the lily family (Liliaceae) and are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, especially the Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and western North America. They come in a large variety of sizes and colors. Some varieties are referred to as Mission Bells.

Tulip in Fuchsia Pink and Yellow

A deep fuchsia pink tulip with a brightyellow center fully open to the light as it reached peak bloom, with a close up view of the stamen and stigma.

Pink Tulip Raindrops

A close up view of a lovely pink tulip in the rain.

Pink Tulips in the Rain

A close up macro view of a pink and white tulip dotted with raindrops during a spring shower.

Tulip Raindrop Abstract in Orange and Gold

A close up macro view of the petals of a red and gold tulip in the rain.

Tulip Flow Abstract

A macro closeup image of a section of the outsidepetals of a multi-colored tulip show the lovely, graceful curves of the bell shape and ruffled edges of the petals.

Orange and Yelllow Tulip Portrait

A close up portrait view of a newly opening orange and yellow tulip sprinkled with raindrops at the start of a shower.

April Yellow Rose

My first rose sighting of the season on almost the last day of April - this small butterscotch yellow rose witha coral hued center.

Yellow Tulip Garden

A section of a garden patch of yellow tulips

Tulip Confection

A clost up view of the inside of a pink, lavender and yellow tulip with layers of petals - looking delectable enough to be created as an edible confection to celebrate spring..

Lavender Lilacs

A frame-filling view of a branch of newly opening lavender lilac buds and flowers.

Double Tulip in Pink and Yellow

A closs up macro view of the center of a beautiful pink double tulip with yellow edging and hints of lavender. These lovely tulips resemble peonies with their delicate looking layers of petals. .