close up view of a small paddle cactus shaped like a heart sticking up out of dirt.

A prickly heart 😉🤣🥰.
I 👩‍🎨 came across this little cactus 🌵volunteer as I was weeding the cacti bed today.
#paddlecactus #heartshape #artistsbackyard

the red leaves of a maple tree in autumn against a blue sky

Celebrating my maple “Blaze”🌳 & my favorite clear, fall, blue sky. 🍁🍁😍🥰💕
#bluesky #artistsbackyard #autumn

a backyard filled with fall colors: yellow leaved trees, reddish brown leaved trees, a flower garden of orange, yellow, green drying out plants, grass that is still green but with patches of brown grass; two blue Adirondack chairs, and a shed with orange dark brown and purple colors

Despite the utility lines I👩‍🎨 have a beautiful view of the neighborhood’s fall colors! 😍🥰🍁🍂🍃
#artistsbackyard #fallcolors

Spider with large oval shaped striped abdomen and long banded legs resting in her web. The web has a woven vertical white band below the spider. Behind the spider and web is a cyclone fence and a bergamot plant with green leaves and pink blossoms

Discovered an orb weaver spider 🕷️ has set up her web 🕸️ in the fence/trellis corner next to my climbing rose. 🥰
#orbweaverspider #northamericaspiders #artistsbackyard

sitting under a cedar tree looking up at it’s trunk of peeling bark and branches while the late afternoon sun casts shadows on it.

Relaxing under my cedar as the light ☀️ starts it’s good-night🥱.
#artistsbackyard #easterncedartree #lastdaysofsummer

flower head of a red & burgundy petaled sunflower with green leaves and brown fence in background

Trying a new sunflower🌻 this year: Chocolate Cherry😍🥰
#artistsgarden #artistsbackyard #sunflowers

close up photo of hot wings maple tree branch, showing green leaves and red winged seeds. The seeds also have the nicknames “tiddlywinks” or “helicopters”.

My Hot Wings maple tree 🌳is enjoying the area’s unusually rainy ⛈️🌦️☔️summer! 😍🥰
#artistsbackyard #hotwingsmaple #acertataricum

thinking of the upcoming warm weather 🌱🌿🌷🌺🌼 - 3 more months until Spring!
(Images from my backyard 2023: monarch feeding on native prairie plant Meadow Blazing Star.) #artistsbackyard #prairieplants #wildflowers

this is what an incoming hailstorm ⛈️🌩️⛈️ looks like: western SD, June 2020.
#artistsbackyard #storms #westernprairie