We were staying in a small town outside of Asheville and were only an hour away from the highest mountain peak east of the Mississippi River! And it had a trail to the summit! And our first Appalachian hike! Win win win!

Rainy season is upon us in the PNW and the days have gotten really short. One place I like to go this time of year is Wildwood Nature Park off 26 near Mt Hood.

Cory and I have been watching Secrets of the Zoo on Disney so we were extra excited to go to the zoo from the show while in North Carolina visiting our family.

I just finished my biggest landscape project I have done and so thought showing pictures that explain the process would be interesting.

I am a weekly winner!

I didn’t know if I really had a shot- my style (realism) is pretty far removed from what Rogue uses on their cans and merchandise (think more comic book meets street art-very cool graphic design, not usually too based in reality. I’ve got a lot of their clothes…) I wanted to stay true to my style and try my hand at what I could do with a Dead Guy..

Crystal Springs is a fantastic garden in Portland. It is full of rhododendrons, azaleas, ducks, geese, trees, ponds, various other flowers.

Yesterday was perfect weather to be biking so we loaded up our bikes and headed to the Gorge.

I have so many new pieces I have been working on with Cory doing the woodwork that before one is finished I am on to the next…