Our Woodpecker Women's V-Neck

All winter I tried to catch our resident woodpecker pair as they visited our ancient white maples, so old that the bark contains a trove of good food choices. They are so quick though and of all the birds which visit our feeder the most elusive, the most aware if I so much as near a window with a camera....woosh, they're gone. But I caught one!!!

I began my love for art by watching my mother paint in oils and pastels. I must have caught the bug because I have enjoyed fifty years of drawing, painting and photography, urged on and instructed by professors, a botanist, a master of Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, water colorists and lately, mixed media devotees. After a course in cubism in 1973 I began to explore pen and ink geometric art. Each stroke was unplanned but exact, the designs becoming more elaborate and more fun to execute. First circles, then onward to straight lines, then organic and architectural constructions. Thirty years later I still dance out on the white space of a simple sheet of paper to weave new drawings. Picasa effects allow me to...