Top 9 Favorites
December 2025
After reflecting on 2025 through my Instagram posts, I’ve picked my top 9 favorites. A blurb is added to share the story behind each image. This post is for fun, but still hard to make the choices. Here are the top picks, in no particular order. Note: there may be edits to this post because it was written 4 weeks before the end of 2025.
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This is a brain exercise I practice when I’ve been up in my head too long; some call it “bilateral drawing”. Each hand holds a wax crayon (or whatever material you like) and make movements simultaneously with both hands on a large piece of paper. The repetitive movements and using both parts of the brain at the same time is relaxing. In this pic, Birdy is walking across a drawing because we share the home studio.
The painting on view through the plant leaves is called All the Glitter in the Sky is You, 2025. This piece didn’t make it to the website, but was included in the May show at Zendo Coffee. Just when you question the path you’re on, you’re reminded to keep going. We doubt ourselves along the way, but people encourage and cheer you on. Most cheers you can hear, and some I feel from family who have passed. This painting is about beauty and grief.
Birdy and I drove cross-country this year. We stopped at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. It was SO humid, my hair was going in every direction. Birdy loved the lush grass and got to stretch her legs.
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On a quiet Saturday morning, I was drinking tea and painting on the couch in a newly handmade book. I love making books! The watercolor painting is a view along the Seismosaurus Trail from the Ojito Wilderness. This area has so many amazing sweeping views. Take a look from the Dragon’s Back trail.
A friend visited NM this year and I took her rockhounding. She had a great time and gathered lots of rocks! this outing helped me develop the rockhounding excursions I began offering this year. It has been a fun addition and love being outside with friends and collectors!
This meditative watercolor painting was completed in a cabin in the woods. It’s a place I go to get away and bring my furry companion. It was a last minute and quick trip to the Jemez Mountains. I love being surrounded by ALL the greens and blue sky. [Big exhale]
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One raindrop on the leaf of a tiger lily. Pure and simple.
It’s the little things that stick with me and this is teeny tiny! This ‘lil painting (3” x 2”ish) was tucked behind Canyon Walls displayed at Zendo Coffee. I found it months later as I was shuffling the canvas around my home studio. What a wonderful surprise! Another artist captured their mug at the table below the installed painting. Thank you for sharing, mystery artist.
Mountains AND snow, two of my favorite things! This picture was taken in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains off Forest Service Rd. 333. Beauty is all around.