Catch the latest inspiration, new images, promotion & other musings. Inviting conversation, comments and questions from others. I'm a second-generation Montanan, born, raised, and still living in my hometown of Missoula. Intimately connected to place and the four seasons, I've left for periods of time, but always returned to this valley, her mountains, her rivers and dear friends. I've enjoyed a l
ong career in the healing arts earning my doctorate degree and establishing a private practice in Transpersonal Psychology. It was only natural that I would bring my intuitively trained eye to the art of photography; the passion taking hold about 12 years ago when I dubbed my backyard "Walden." The yard was large with a 100 feet of creek frontage, which was where I parked myself - with a macro lens and a promise to stay put. The challenge I had set was to find beauty where I was sitting and not be looking elsewhere. This, a metaphor that became a discovery of worlds within a world beginning with the textured surface of water-logged wood that came down in the spring run-off and leading to the IceScapes of winter. Ultimately, the discovery was more about light than the subject itself.
