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Follow me on Instagram to find out when my 2026 Calendar will be ready for purchase. I post my hikes, illustrations, and other pretty things.

Such lovely views from the Starvation Creek Loop Trail in the Columbia Gorge. I was hoping to get to the bridge crossing the creek at the top but I left my poles in the car (🤪) and was more than a little leery of the slippery rocky part. 👵🏻 (the 4

Hello. Here’s my newest illustration and some pics from the hike that inspired it. This is Mt. Washington from the North Matthieu Lake Trail not far from Sisters. The mountain in the other photo by the lake is South Sister. The row of gray tree

I’ll be showing (and selling!) my art this Saturday at the Gresham Festival of Arts! Come see my pretty scenic illustrations, like these of Mt Hood, Bandon, Short Sands and the view from Neahkahnie mountain. I’ll have note cards and frame

Umbrella Falls Trail …. Hot summer hike at Mt. Hood Meadows. Ace hiking buddy @lilasimm sitting on our lunch rock (yes I needed her help getting up there!). The trail goes under the chair lifts, fun to see the wildflowers cascading down the sk

The sun is out! Well, briefly. Lots of rain. Thus far my tent hasn’t leaked. I’m at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, ALL WEEKEND! Hoping the tent keeps all of my beautiful art dry. Stop by!

#art #artfestival #scenery #scenicillustra

Brave the rain and come on out to the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts this weekend. I’ll have a tent to protect you ~ and my art! Showing a few new drawings and some of my classics. I’ll have prints unframed and framed and notecards. Boo

No Kings March today in Portland. Tens of thousands showed up with so many clever signs. Favorite daughter in first pic with my sign (I saw one on threads, not my original idea). Yay people!

#nokings #nokingsprotest #portlandprotest #portlandoregon

We may not be the fasted dragon boat team but we are the funnest. Here’s our traditional end-of-the-season cram in the Lucky Lab Photo Booth pic. We got almost all 23 in! Anyway the weekend is always so much fun, although ‘twas a wee bit

Dragon boat race today… what a blast! We did okay but the point is to have fun… which we did. And my team is a trendsetter … now everybody seems to have a lime green shirt, but we were first.

@pksca.db.race #dragonboat #pksca #

Pretty wildflowers ~ I really love the balsam root in their seed stage, the pentstemon are still very purple, and of course the brilliant blue cornflower is always a standout. Pretty view also, Mt. Hood peeked out, as did Mt. Adams. Very nice to have

Mt St Helens, and Spirit Lake, as it looks nowadays (in my beautiful illustration). Today marks 45 years since it erupted! The next pic is the beautiful, perfectly rounded peak before it erupted.

What dreary, dark, ash-filled days followed here in

My Mother’s Day treat, a family favorite hike to Falls Creek Falls, where there are always tons of Calypso orchids. This year we (that is favorite daughter) counted 43. One year we counted 115! Fewer this year because of such a dry April? Maybe

Hole-in-the-Wall Falls, at Starvation Creek State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. This waterfall really does come out of a hole in the wall, it’s a pipe constructed by state highway peeps to fix a flooding problem at Warren Creek. It’s

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