treeclimber

Hello! I'm enjoying exchanging postcards with people all over the world and hearing about your life.

If you're like me and hope to find a 'perfect' card to send, here is a list of my interests. Please don't feel you have to send something from this list. Every card is welcome! I love learning about new places.

* reading - favorites are mystery/suspense, spies, historical non-fiction, and biographical
* genealogy
* scrapbooking, rubber stamping and card making
* quilting
* architecture - all styles, Frank Lloyd Wright is a favorite
* gardening
* flowers - tulips, sunflowers, daisies, poppies
* bees and butterflies
* cats and dogs
* sketching
* art journaling & mixed media
* art - some of my favorites:
Impressionists (Renoir, Monet, Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, Sargent)
Tonalists (Whistler), Hudson River School (Cole, Church, Innes, Durand)
Contemporary Pastelists (Margaret Evans, Richard McKinley, Marla Baggetta, Susan Ogilvie, Alain Picard, Sally Strand, Dawn Emerson, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Stan Sperlak, Loriann Signori, Nancy Nowak, Karen Margulis, Anna Wainwright)
Sketchers (Andrea Joseph, Marc Taro Holmes, Lapin, Shari Blaukopf, Liz Steel, Ian Fennely)
* animation
* painting (pastel, watercolor, oil)
* Coca-Cola
* music
* travel - I've been to about 36 states and hope to travel to all 50. I've been to Belgium and Italy and the South of France. My 2020 Scotland trip was canceled. Paris - I'm finally going in 2023! I signed up for a watercolor sketching workshop in Giverny and will spend a couple days in Paris in August 2023