It hardly gets any better than how it felt the day I saw these roses. The first Friday in May, 2021, the artists in our Friday group visted the gardens at Filoli in Woodside, California. Everyone had been vaccinated so we could be in person for the first time since... 
Shop Archival Prints These peppers really did grow in these yummy colors! My dad grew them in his prolific summer vegetable garden. A painting of them would be nice to accompany Ripe – the painting I did of his beautiful tomatoes – a decade earlier. I... 
I was intrigued by the winding quality of this branch and the way it snaked across the camera’s viewfinder. The blossoming branch grew on a tree at a favorite garden – Filoli. The Magnolia artists were on a field trip there the April before the... 
A month ago tomorrow we had to say goodbye to our beloved Bojangles. Though he was 11, he seemed to be doing just fine. He and I walked the 3 miles around Lake Bon Tempe the day before. Then the next day he collapsed, letting us know he was sicker than we knew and it... 
I learned that he was gone via a text from Patti: “Did you see that Joseph Raffael passed away?” Patti Sulewski is a beautiful artist and beautiful person from Auburn, WA who tracked me down during the pandemic. She joined us on Zoom when we were... 