It's Abstract Thursday!

Today's AT is theme free as it is the first of a new month.  A number of folk, including our host Ingeborg, have managed to incorporate Blue & Yellow into their blips, to show solidarity with Ukraine.  That I have failed to do, but my thoughts turn to that poor beleaguered country and its people many times each day.
For this week's effort I've used a new to me filter, Colored Pencil (PS Elements uses American spelling!) which produces  an effect that I like very much although the result cannot be described as truly abstract.  So enamoured am I of this filter that I've put another effort in Extras: this one features a shot of bergenia taken through my crystal ball.