Seattle, WA 2019
A very quick trip to Seattle (with my youngest two) to remedy a lost passport issue prior to a one-month trip to Japan and Korea! All was - eventually - well.












A very quick trip to Seattle (with my youngest two) to remedy a lost passport issue prior to a one-month trip to Japan and Korea! All was - eventually - well.














Summer 2018: Water, hiking, parks, trees, food, shopping, art. Spent a few days with good friends, taking time to enjoy the beautiful lake and green trails.



Water, coffee, milk, juice, and my favorite: herbal tea with honey. Fill it up. Hey, Chip...!




As a California child, I gleaned peaches and strawberries after the local harvesters harvested. My sisters and I plucked olives from the neighbor's orchard, and spent hours in the summer sun picking juicy blackberries from the thorny overgrowth down the driveway, fed by the trickling irrigation ditch. Blackberry pie. Blackberry jam. In Montana, apples and cherries. Fruit is good food.





Sketchbook Cars
Cars, cars, cars! One of the best inventions. Driving, traveling to a new place or an old favorite - in style.



10-minute sketches: any kind of door. Doors as portals and passageways...

A bigger moon. A taller tree. A sweeter tune. A better me.

When Mortimer wished on a star, I don't think he wished very far. No currency came. No change in his name. No limo replaced his old car.

A self-potrait of things that define you, your interests, your favorite colors, etc. Fall leaves, music, journaling, sunflowers, fresh fruit, fishing, quilting...

Lovely flowers, garden, sky... Yupo paper watercolor experiment. I might put this on a greeting card.