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Inside a 'snow globe' is a summer landscape with a cottage overshadowed by maple and cherry trees. The surrounding grassy field is filled with lilies and wildflowers in bright colors. Roses and ivy climb the wall of the little house. It's a late summer day, and a thousand bright orange and blue butterflies swirl around the globe.

Butterfly Globe

This is my third version of the seasonal globe idea. Even though it's officially fall now, it still feels like summer, and there are lots of butterflies around.

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Firefly Globe

Even the longest day of the year eventually turns to dusk, and the fireflies come out.

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Inside a 'snow globe' is a spring landscape with a cottage overshadowed by maple and cherry trees. The surrounding grassy field is filled with spring flowers, snapdragons and cornflowers in pastel colors. Roses and ivy climb the wall of the little house. The cherry tree is in full bloom, and instead of snow there are cherry blossoms swirling around in the globe and blanketing the grass.

Cherry Blossom Globe

A while ago I had the idea of a “snow” globe with different seasons, and I finally got the spring version realized. I hope to do the other seasons as well.

This was my first time working with Vue's EcoParticle technology. It allows for objects, in this case cherry blossoms, to be scattered through the air. It's primarily for animations, but by choosing a point several seconds into the scattering I was able to get a nice still version.

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Sunny yellow and blue tulips stand out in a field on a cool, misty spring morning. In the early sunlight they stand out like golden cups of light.

Golden Jubilee

This is a rework of my earlier picture, Purple Jubilee with a different color scheme. I don't actually care much for yellow myself, but I try to branch out and use all colors on occasion. I know some people really like yellow and blue together …

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Cherry Tree Concerto

Concerto: a composition for one or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment.

This was actually inspired by an Easter picture I saw, but it took me about 6 months to finish it.

If you were to lie down on the ground under the cherry tree you would see April Showers.

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Originally created October 7, 2014