2007 ~ We never would have found the corner store in San Francisco’s Chinatown without Julia & Helen. And I’m so glad we went when we did, because the shop where I bought my SpringMoon Chinese signature stamp closed down a few years ago…for some reason or another. Image via Wikipedia Julia’s one of my [...]

After having them around for months, Debbie, my sister-in-law, recently decided to frame two SpringMoon prints she had originally asked me for to show her Mom, when ‘Oma’ was doing some redecorating. The bold coral abutilon ‘bells’ with its gritty digital textures and the serene maple with its delicate flowers & winged seeds are two [...]

Our local natural flood plain ~ The Laguna de Santa Rosa ~ part of the Russian River watershed is world renown, so I learned yesterday from a local creeks management employee. A valuable wetlands ecosystem, the Laguna serves to catch excess water from back-to-back seasonal rainstorms that drench Sonoma county every few winters, usually in [...]