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Coming up this weekend! Dec 7 and 8 I’ll have a booth at The Wild Arts Festival in Hillsboro with a collection of prints, some framed, note cards and calendars with my illustrations of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Swipe through to see some

Junction Lake ~ original and reimagined ~ in the very wonderful Indian Heaven Wilderness. This was my first attempt at digital illustrations of the beautiful Northwest.

I’ve now completed 36!

And working on more. 👩🏼&zwj;💻

#originalillu

CALENDARS are here! Twelve new Oregon and Washington (and one of California!) scenes . . . mountain lakes, waterfalls, the Oregon coast, and wilderness hikes, check out a few pages shown here. (Cute model not included.)

Same size as last year, 9x16

Well we missed the fall color by one week but Indian Heaven is still and always my fave. Thanks to intrepid hiking partner @lilasimm for humoring me as we searched for an unmarked-on-any-map loop trail between Rock Lake and Blue Lake (where the water

Surprise sighting of the Northern Lights in Portland last night, not the most fantastic show ever but at least we saw them. The best shots are from the Sauvie Island Bridge and one is along Hwy 30. At first they were green and then the pink took over

Pretty views on an absolutely perfect day in the Columbia River Gorge. The trail was a good workout, parts of it are narrow steep and rocky. Glad we went counterclockwise! I can’t think of any other trail where you actually walk along the river

End of summer (already?) hike to this historical gathering place for the Yakama, Klickitat and Columbia River tribes in the fabulous Indian Heaven Wilderness. The track was used for pony races. It’s a huge meadow at the base of Red Mountain (so

Labor Day weekend hike to Wahclella Falls, very hot day. I wanted to get a photo from the same spot I used for my newest illustration (yes! It’ll be on my 2025 calendar! Stay tuned for order info) but I realized that photo was taken in January

I have a new hiking buddy . . . great nephew (and I mean great!!) Owen joined Lila and me for a short jaunt up the Wahkeenah trail. He’s a trooper! Seems like it’d be hard to manage in plastic crocs but if you’re young. . .

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