We see A LOT of hearts! I love every heart we see. We had out first mini vacation over Memorial Day weekend by taking a short drive to Aspen. The mountains were beautiful and it was wonderful to go somewhere outside the house for a few days! We started seeing hearts as we packed up to leave. They appeared over and over all weekend and we counted about 40 total hearts over the long weekend! Here are the top 12. Have you seen any hearts lately? Now that we are traveling again, I can't wait to book a trip back to the magical place where it all started, Sedona! I hope everyone has a great week. 

Happy Monday! I feel like it's finally spring here in Colorado. It will be a while before the sunflowers bloom, but I'm looking forward to all the flowers of summer! What is your favorite flower of summer? Mine are lilacs and sunflowers! Todays image was taken with my iPhone and won third place image of the year at the camera club I belong to and is a reminder that you don't need fancy expensive equipment to take amazing photographs! 

It's almost summer! I love a fresh tomato, mozzarella and basil salad. As we sliced up the tomatoes and prepared to put them on the plate, a heart jumped out. I love finding hearts in unexpected places! What are some of your favorite summer foods? 

I love where we live! We moved to Colorado about a year ago and our backyard is home to the most spectacular sunsets! Saturday night we were treated to one of the best shows this year. It was a 45 minute color show as the sun sank below the mountain range. Always remember when watching and photographing sunsets, to keep looking behind you and don't leave right after the sun sets, the colors will continue to change for a least another half hour! If you leave right after the sun sets, you will miss 75% of the show! Happy Mother's Day to all and have a great week!

The weather was beautiful this weekend, so we got to eat outside at one of our favorite restaurants called Zucca. As we sat at our seat on the patio, I spied a heart in the stucco wall near the front door. It always amazes me when I find a heart like this, how do I keep seeing them? The first photo is the view from our seat, do you see the heart?My eyes go to it like a laser beam. The second shot is a close up of the heart I could see from my seat! I love finding hearts!! I hope everyone has a great week! Hint: look to the lower left of the long window. 

I thought flowers would be appropriate for todays post. Spring feels like its here, well every other day it seems, and things are starting to seed tiny green shoots out to welcome the warmer weather. We spent the day cleaning up the yard so the new growth can flourish and I guess I had flowers on my mind tonight. This is one of my favorite images that I created from some poppies we saw on a trip to France. These beautiful flowers were growing In a field just outside the town of Giverny, where we were visiting Monet's famous garden for a week long photography workshop. I took the original photograph with my Canon Mark III and then imported the image to my iPhone. There I used a combination of TouchRetouch, Snapseed, and DistressedFx to create this dreamy image. I hope everyone has a great week. 

Happy Easter Sunday and Happy Spring! I hope everyone had a great Sunday! The snow has melted here in Colorado and spring is in the air! When I think of spring, I think of flowers. Here is a shot I took with my Canon Mark III "big girl" camera and then I imported it into my phone for editing. I used Snapseed to refine the image and then DistressedFX to create the dreamy look. If you have not checked it out yet, DistressedFX has some new fun features that allow masking and new blending modes! You can now upgrade to DistressedFX Plus. I hope everyone has a creative, productive week! 

This weeks heart fell off my slice of pizza. It was a thin crust craft pizza and after I finished my slice, I found this heart crumb on my plate. I decided to take a photo of the heart crust placed on my heart napkin. I hope everyone has a great week! #theartofhearts #hiddenheartmessages #haveyouseenanyheartstoday #pizzahearts #filltheinternetwithhearts 

This week was really long! There was a lot to get done at work and we both had some late nights. It was great to get out to nature this weekend in Rocky Mountain National Park, but it was bit crowded and we discovered we needed spikes for your shoes to be able to fully enjoy the trails. And even though we don't go many places due to covid, we still find a lot of hearts. Here are two special ones. The first appeared from some seasoning in my Chinese take out! And then on Saturday, it was warm enough to eat outside, we found a fabulous new restaurant in Lyons, CO called Mojo Taqueria serving delicious tacos! Charles saw this heart form after a drop of guacamole dropped off a chip into his empty bean bowl. How does that even happen? I am still in awe every time I see heart. How do I see them? How do they keep forming from everyday items? I love seeing them and they make me smile. I hope they bring a smile to you too! #haveyouseenanyheartstoday? #theartofhearts #filltheinternetwithhearts #happyhearthunting #hiddenheartmessages

What a difference a week can make in the weather. Last weekend it was over 60 degrees and we got the chance to eat outside at one of our favorite places here in Colorado, called Stem Ciders. But this weekend we are getting buried under 3 feet of snow! So glad we got to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather, good food and fabulous drinks! When our food came out to picnic table it was literally showing me the love. I found two hearts, one in the pickle on the bun and the other on my french fries! I love finding hearts! #hiddenheardmessages #haveyouseenanyheartstoday #theartofhearts #happyhearthunting #filltheinternetwithhearts 

We almost made it to February. On the one hand the month went by super fast for me, where did January go? But on the other hand, some parts seemed to drag on. But tomorrow we start February, the month of hearts and love. Our world could use some more love, it's been kind of tense here for quite some time. I love seeing hearts. They give me comfort. They help remind me there is good in the world and remind me we need to spread smiles to others when we can. This heart was created from the sun streaming through a window catcher at a restaurant where we were having breakfast in Colorado in October of 2019. There were no hearts in the sun catcher, so again we were in the right place and the exact right time to see the light of this heart. I love the rainbow look created from the sun catcher and how it blends with the rustic floor. As we move in to the first week of February think of a way to make someone else smile this week! Let's start a chain reaction of good deeds and smile sharing! 

Today's image is a rendition of an aspen tree grove we photographed in Rocky Mountain National Park this fall. Our new home here in Longmont is about an hour drive to the park and it is wonderful to live so close to such a beautiful place. This fall we had snow, fall color and I heard my first bugling elk. I used the app Mix to create this colorful view of group of aspen trees. I look forward to many more trips to the park and the surrounding wilderness.