I have been getting ready to be the featured artist at the Columbia Gorge Art Festival next weekend. There is a very nice article about me by Sharon Nesbitt in the Gresham Outlook this week. Check it out. article
I'm honored, and hope to do a good job for them.
I've been trying to get ready, but am having a bit of trouble settling down and deciding what to do next. I hope to spend some time in the gorge painting this next few days. Until then this painting pretty much says it all for me.


all at sea
16" x 20" oil on aluminum

Our trip to Washington D.C. was everything I'd always imagined it would be, and much more.

National museum of Native American Arts



Alexander Calder!
A very happy event was making a connection with Kristy's Uncle Don, who is living in D.C. right now. He showed us how to ride the metro, and took us to see some things we wouldn't have seen otherwise. It made us feel so connected. We had long visits, lingering over many delicious meals. We had such a good time catching up and making new memories.
He took us to the National Botanical Garden Wow!
Of course we had to see the Lincoln Memorial and from there we walked back to town, past the Vienam wall, the nurses memorial, the World War two memorial, (beautiful) and the Washington monument.

We were absolutely filled up with art, food, fellowship & fabulousness,

but as you all know

there's no place like home.