CHALK MURALS IN PRESCOTT! This is at the second annual “Chalk It Up”!  I didn’t know about the one last year because we had just moved here, but when I heard about this one, I called my ever-so talented and beautiful friend Jen and invited her over for the weekend for it. I’d been trying [...]

  Julie was selected by the Grand Canyon Association to be their first South Rim Artist in Residence, a program that had been going on for several years on the North rim and other National Parks, but only recently started on the South. She selected as the sight of her mural the Shrine of the [...]

In my “other life”, I was a nurse working first at St.Joes in Phoenix as a newborn nursery nurse, then in Mesa at Desert Samaritan as a med/surg nurse.  I retired, but before I did, did a stint as a Red Cross nurse.  This was most memorable… and in many ways, life-changing in that I’ve [...]

MY MANTRUCK I just LOVE my truck. Is that bad…to love a THING so much? think about it tho. It protects me from all the crazies out there (size DOES matter!) It takes me anyplace I want to go and loves doing it…the rowdier the better.  It takes me.on adventures to far off places or [...]

This big guy was part of the booty I gathered on my photo safari while an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon Nat’l  Park.  One day I took a day off from painting my mural at the Shrine of the Ages and took my camera, car and roomate and just photographed all we saw! [...]