I am an painter and drawer, with occasional printmaking forays. I teach high school art locally. My passions are hiking, gardening and cooking. I hike between one day a week and 7 days a week when I have the time and the weather permits. I am particularly interested in communities of plants found together... seems like they have their own forms of supportive communities. I also love looking at biomes and seeing how each plant community is dependent on location, sun and moisture access, incline of the surface and insects, etc.

Of course, I love seeing a nice bunch of quails or a slow moving newt, but I am not a very good photographer of things in movement. I also am sort of nearsighted, so birds all look like fast, busy critters from a distance, impossible to get a good photo of!