The city of my birth holds a big place in my heart. Within, Forest Park holds a special mystique. After living for 20 years in a cabin in the middle of the wilderness of Canyon, just outside of Oakland, I can well imagine what wonders...
Happy Birthday Kirsten! [gallery type="rectangular" size="medium" ids="1541,1556,1555,1557,1542"]...
I'm back home from Baltimore and have been consuming nature like candy. I can't believe how lucky I am to live where I do. Yesterday I sat in pygmy redwoods--the easternmost in the San Francisco Bay area. I was struck by a...
It's the sparkle that gives life to my clay work and might have helped bring about life on earth. Mica is a flaky mineral that organizes naturally in layer upon layer in thin sheets. That feature is what allows me to create controllable chatoyant...
Campanulariidae. That's what 19th century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel called the tiny animals he rendered in this drawing. I call it jewelry. Bead forms tied together in the most elegant fashion possible. Simply gorgeous. Sea life and microscopic organisms are fantastic eye openers into the diversity...