With the calming color blue and the beauty of a wildflower, the image of Blue Eyed Grass engages and distracts the viewer. Blue is the color of spirituality, inspiration and inner peace. In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally.

Images of the prairie, when displayed in healthcare and working environment provides a refuge and increases productivity. Bring nature indoors can generate positive emotions and release stress.

Images of nature help renew the bond between humans and other living systems in healthcare and corporate settings. Images of nature help heal, reduce stress & inspire the viewer.

Images of nature in a health care or corporate setting has much of the same benefits. Visual connections with nature provide an refuge for the body and the mind. Images of nature encourages Forest Bathing when needed.

A unique combination of plants can be found on a glade. The Blue Wild Indigo and a Yellow Indian Paintbrush are among those that grow in the rocky landscape.

Details can be engaging and require the attention of the viewer. Components of nature are calming elements in a health and memory care environment.

Water droplets hang like jewels on the blooms of an ornamental onion after a thunder storm. Remember, a flower in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

They have blooms that resemble strings of inverted pantaloons hung out to dry in the spring breeze.These were found along a mossy path during a camera hike.

Sycamore trees just beginning to bud provide a visual connection with nature.

Fresh blooms of native white dogwood are a reminder of the the renewal of spring

Spring Cherry Blossom are perfect symbols of humans connection to nature.

Although the tiny intruder can be a menace to some, it allows the sense to bathe in the joy of spring

using nature art to bring nature indoors: Images of nature provide all the benefits of outdoor nature scenes but in a format that can exist indoors.

When urban art and nature are combined the beauty of both benefit all.

Early spring woodland wildflower appear along the trails in the Midwest. The color purple is associated with wisdom, powder and healing.

Spring Beauty the first tiny signs of renewal. A welcome sight!

Humans have an innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature. A visual connection with nature provides much of the same benefits as a walk in the woods.

Reducing the subject to an abstract has a calming effect by engaging and distracting the viewer.

Seeds of potential can be found in unlikely places.