Art that inspires beautiful memories
”And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they’ll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow’s sky.” – Van Morrison
”Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main…” – Mykyta Isagulov
“Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.” Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.” – Mark Nepo
“In a moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.” – Nigerian proverb
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
“A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.” – Sandy Gingras
“The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart.” ― Anthony T. Hincks
“Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.” – William Wordsworth
“On the Road to Artist Point”: original SOLD – artist enhanced giclee prints available. Prices vary based on size of print.
“The storm front had finally broken, tatters of cloud pulling apart like cotton candy.” – Leah Raeder
“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” – Maxime Lagace
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.” – Voltaire
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Unknown
“Island living means having a front row seat of nature’s performance.” – A. Merching
“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – James Henry Leigh Hunt
“Water is very soft and submissive, but not even the mighty mountain can resist it.” – Debasish Mridha
“If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.” – Douglas Jerrold
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” – Jim Rohn
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” – Paul Theroux
When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
”When cardinals appear, angels are near.”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” – William Shakespeare
“Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir
“Happy harvesting begins with careful sowing.” – Patrick Mundus
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” Christy Ann Martine
“Stay close to the serenity of a lake to meet your own peace of mind.” – Munia Khan
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it is.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“Life is not measured by the breaths you take but rather by the moments that take your breath away.” – Anonymous
“I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn’t become a bird overnight.” – Lois Ehlert
“An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.” – Christie Watson
“How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.” – Richard Bach
“Time wasted at the lake is time well spent.” – Unknown
“Being on a boat that’s moving through water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.” – James Taylor
“The tonal is a sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.” – Frederick Lenz
“Save My Place” : 12″ x 16″ Acrylic Original – SOLD
“The Bridge at Bellingham Falls”: 11″ x 14″ acrylic original on canvas – SOLD
“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Though birds are flying in a flock, every bird is flying alone but the accompany of other birds is precious. This is our social life.” – Dr. Saroj Kakati
“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.” – Abigail Reynolds
“The waterfall is nature’s laughter.” – Anonymous
“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” – Eddie Cantor
“Let yourself disappear in the mist of paradise.” – Anonymous
“Though birds fly in a flock, every bird is flying alone. But the accompany of the other birds is very precious. This is our social life.” – Dr. Saroj Kakati
“End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.” – Clint Walker
“If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.” – Ellen Swallow Richards
“Make your heart like a lake with a calm, still surface and great depths of kindness.” – Lao Tzu
“Serenity is the balance of heart and mind.” – Harold W. Becker
“Every canvas is a journey all its own.” – Helen Frankenthaler
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” – Edith Wharton
“Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.” – Rishabh Gautam
“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” – Bernard Williams
“Red sky at night sailors delight; red sky in the morning sailors take warning.”
“Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.” – Benjamin Franklin
“And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.” – Christopher Cross
“At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn’t look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that’s completely typical of Seattle.” – Jonathan Raban
“I must have flowers, always, always.” – Monet
“Go where you feel the most alive.” – Anonymous
“The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.” – George Eliot
“We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.”
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so…get on your way!” Dr. Seuss
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler
“Meanwhile, the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.” – Mary Oliver
“ I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
“Serenity is the tranquil balance of heart and mind.” – Harold W. Becker
“Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.” – Lao Tzu
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.” – Thoreau
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
“A bad day can be made better with some fishing time.”
“Creativity is the blue heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.” – Janice Brown
“You are not just a fish in the big pond. You are the pond.” – Angela Porisky
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
“If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.” – Unknown
“May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.”
“Sitting next to you, doing absolutely nothing, Means absolutely everything to me.”
“Love is all you need – but we should probably eat something now.” – Unknown
“It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest.” – Orson Swett Marden
“There is nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.” – Bob Ross
“ A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” – Mary Davis
“May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Fidalgo Morning”- SOLD
“Friday Harbor Arrival”: SOLD
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Checkov
“Driftwood Beach”: SOLD
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Remember to turn everything off once a week – including your brain – and walk somewhere quiet.”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
“Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”
“Deception Passage”: Original SOLD/Canvas mounted print available
“The Moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, color, and nuance.” – Arthur Smith
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Hikers Resting”: Original SOLD
“Whose Woods These Are”; SOLD
“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Unknown
“Moon Over Cascades”; 18″ x 24″ acrylic original – $475
“I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip.” Groucho Marx
“Always be thankful for the little things…evcen the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views.” – Nyki Mack
“Soaring Over the Falls”: 20″ x 30″ acrylic original – $375
“Footsteps in the Sand”: 16″ x 16″ acrylic original
“Little Nibble”: 16″ x 12″ acrylic original – $225
“Island Fog”: 12″ x 16″ acrylic original – $425
“Baker Sunrise”: SOLD
“Sitka Serenity”: Original SOLD
“Autumn Fire”: 30″ x 36″ acrylic original – $275
“Decisions”; 12″ x 16″ acrylic original
“Forest Fog”: 10″ x 12″ acrylic original – $225
“Gone Fishing”: SOLD
“Morning Tulip”: Original SOLD/Canvas mounted print available
“Dinner!”: 20″ x 20″ acrylic original
“Calm Waters at Sunset”: Acrylic Original – 11″ x 14″ – $225
“Skagit Morning”: Original SOLD/Canvas mounted print available
“Moonlit Sailing”: 16″ x 12″ Acrylic original – $225
“Homeward Arrival”: Original SOLD
“Island Flight”: 14″ x 11″ acrylic original = $285/ Also available in artist enhanced print
“The most fantastic magical things can happen, and it all starts with a wish.” – Pinocchio
“Lilacs”: SOLD
“Tulip”: 8″ x 8″ acrylic original (9″ x 9″ with frame) – $225
“Grace”: 8″ x 8″ acrylic original (9″ x 9″ with frame) = $225
“Dew Tell”: 8″ x 8″ acrylic original (9″ x 9″ with frame) – $225
“Bloom”: 8″ x 8″ acrylic original (9″ x 9″ with frame) – $225
“Purity”: 8″ x 8″ acrylic original (9″ x 9″ with frame) – $225
“A true friend leaves paw prints on your heart.”
“Hank” – 9″ x 12″ acrylic original commission piece – SOLD
“Calvin” : Original SOLD
“Grace” : Original SOLD
“Riley” : Original SOLD
“Arlo and Lucy”: 11″ x 14″ acrylic original commission piece – (SOLD)
“Rohda” : 10″ x 10″ commission piece/SOLD
”Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Red, White or Blend?”: 11″ x 16″ acrylic original – $175
“Dare to be Different”: 18″ x 14″ acrylic original with frame – $225
“Threatening Skies”: 24″ x 18″ acrylic original – $325
“Maroon Bells”: Original SOLD
“A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.” – “Twas the Night Before Christmas” : Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston Jr.
“Bella Luna”: 12″ x 9″ acrylic original – $185
“Cozy Cuple”: SOLD
“North Beach Trail”: Original SOLD
“Mist in the morning is Earth’s morning breath…” ― Nanette L. Avery
“Hillside Sunset”: Original SOLD
“Birds of a Feather”: 36″ x 12″ acrylic original – $550
“Big Beach”: 14″ x 11″ acrylic original – $185
“Warm Sunset”: 12″ x 16″ acrylic original – $225
“A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel.” – Gretel Ehrrlich