Spring energy is in full bloom right now in Ohio and I have come across so many interesting things on my walks I can't keep up!  If ...

I finally finished printing the giant linocut acorns !  It has truly been quite a learning experience for me.  I learned that: It wil...

I have been dreaming about giant linocut acorns for a while now so I decided it was finally time to attempt one.  I usually have an asso...

Last week I was so excited to find out my book, " Birding Journal: Through the Seasons " was on Tina Fey's new show, ...

Last weekend Christina and I walked over to Evanston to sketch St. Mark's church.  Every time I get off the highway I drive by this...

Friday night there was a steady rain and George convinced me that it was the magical night he had been waiting for for weeks...the night...

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Whe...

When we first moved in to our house a neighbor across the street gave us a cutting of her beefeater begonia.  Twelve years later it is s...

Last week Christina , Amy and I sketched at the Krohn Conservatory .  I decided to sketch a huge philodendron that overhangs the waterf...

I have had these scallop-edged cards in my stationary box for years and decided it was time to make something with them.  I started by m...

I have always loved the odd, bulbous growths (called burls) found on some trees and the other day I stopped to look at one in a neighbor...

"I thought you went for a walk, not a swim!" was George's comment when I returned home the other day and showed him the ph...