First. I m not a quilter. This was my first and I don’t have plans for others. I occasionally enjoy sewing and I love learning how to make things. It came about by my having a bunch of fabric and being annoyed I didn’t have a plan for it.

Hey all! It has been a minute since I posted, but largely that’s been because I have been trying to wrap up things before I start posting about them. On that note, I am participating in the 6x6x6 Community art show at Alberta Street Gallery in Portland, OR that has already started and will run through March 24th. All works had to be 6x6x6 inches or less- mine were 5in circles.

My sister was off for Christmas as her baby’s daycare was closed, so that seemed the perfect time to visit; off to North Carolina we flew! Needing to get our 100th hike in for 2022, we got my sister and niece to go with. She took us to a park that she had been to but our niece hadn’t.

Somehow I managed to forget to post this finished watercolor from a couple months ago. This is my largest watercolor to date and was a really fun commission for a customer with special ties to the mountain. Her dad helped build the Timberline Trail around Mt Hood with the CCC.

On our way home from our road trip to the Midwest we went to Rocky Mountain National Park for an afternoon.

While on our recent road trip we went to Capitol Reef in Utah on the way to our destination. It is a fold in the earth’s crust caused by a fault. With all the erosion added to this the landscape is pretty wild with pink and orange walls to wander between and lots of patterns on these walls that you can’t help but think about the processes that created them.

I have long wanted to go to Bryce Canyon National Park and finally got the chance when we were able to work it into a road trip to see family. It was worth all the wait! Bryce has the highest concentration of hoodoos on the planet and hiking among them (especially at around 8000 ft elevation) was a really magical experience. I already want to go back!