Celebrating the changing seasons

Before I share my art today, I wanted to take you back to Tuesday when I had no electricity or internet.

Although these photos were taken early Wednesday morning,

you can see I finally put my front flower bed to bed (pun not intended, but it fit) for the year.

I placed the pumpkins in the yard, hoping they would break down over the winter and the seeds would grow in the spring.  I also dug up all the rocks I had "planted" one year.  They had sunk so deep, they were no longer visible until you ran over one with the lawn mower.  I'll build a rock garden in the spring.

You can see I have two more of these large rocks that will be added to the mix in the spring, too.  Now it's time to fast forward to today's art.

I'm once again joining Sheila at Orange Esmeralda, our wonderful host this month at Art Journal Journey with her theme Let's Celebrate.  I'm really lucky enough to live in a part of the world where there are definitely four distinct seasons.

Each of these pictures shows

a very distinct season based on where I live.

Don't you just love watching the birds as they also celebrate each season of the year?

For this page I created in my Challenges altered book, I began with a card stock background I made by scraping two colors across the page using a faux credit card.  The images were actually the tiny photos on the back of a calendar that represented each month of the year.  I only chose seven because I didn't think I could get all 12 on the page.  I cut them to look like photographs using my deckle edge scissors. My only embellishment was washi tape.    I used my black Zig pen to write the sentiment.

Thank you beyond words for visiting me today as I join Sheila and Susi at Art Journal Journey.  Hope to see you there, too!