As a teen, I decided I wanted to be a folksinger. So I bought a 12-string guitar and some chord books, and with a little practice I soon found myself working my way through college with a...
Coastal Art
Salute to the Green Flash
There’s an old cracker legend that in mid-summer, when the conditions at sunset are just right, you’ll see a brilliant green flash just seconds before the sun slips below the horizon. I’ve been...
Twilight Competitors
This was my very first fully-executed watercolor painting.For Christmas, 2000, my husband came home with armloads of art supplies as a gift for me. He said he was tired of hearing complain that I...
Sunset Dock Reflections
…And when he was up, he was up,And when he was down, he was down,And when he was only half way up he was neither up nor down.“The Grand Old Duke of York,” Children’s Nursery Rhyme One evening,...
Mangrove Grip
Consider the estuary – that plot of sand between the ocean and the land that serves as the nursery for a huge variety of sea life, as well as providing environmental protection from shifting tides...
Lionfish & Shrimp
A Spider Shrimp is not safe around a Lionfish. Neither is a human. The beautiful, feathery spines of the Lionfish contain a cocktail mix of toxins, making it one of the most dangerous creatures in...
May You Have Light
Behold the humble mangrove – Living in that magical estuary space between the ocean and the land. And in that half-earth, half-water environment it creates a world all its own. While the...
Fast Food Web
Remember learning about food chains? Today environmental scientists talk in terms of the “food web,” a complex interaction of sunlight, microbes, plants, prey and predators exchanging energy at many...
Mermaid Tales
Remember your school definitions? A mammal is a warm-blooded higher vertebrate that nourishes its young with milk secreted by mammary glands and has skin usually covered with hair. Well-known marine...
Swimming With Whales
Have you ever felt like you jumped into the deep end of a project and you were in over your head? I have an annoying habit of volunteering for things beyond my current skill level and then...