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Do you remember back when women and girls wore dresses most of the time? You rarely saw women running around in blue jeans or slacks. They wore dresses to work (those who DID work, that is) they wore them around the house and to go shopping. The dresses were flirty, feminine and fashionable.

Back around 1953 to about 1958 (I think), when I was a young girl, my mother, Ethel Quelland, designed and made nearly all of her clothes and mine too. In fact, I got my first store-bought dress when I was about 12. Eventually the sketching of the dresses became more interesting for my Mom than the sewing was and her art career began. Painting grew to be her passion and her profession. Over the next several decades she displayed and sold her work in art shows from Cape Cod to Miami ... and quite successfully. (Do I sound proud? You bet!)

I recently rediscovered 52 of these charming pencil sketches and decided to share them. They are mostly sketched on typing paper, most are pret...

I was a professional photographer for more than 35 years. While my vocation included wedding and portrait photography and the restoration of very old (and not so old) images, my avocation goes toward the more creative. These include floral and landscape photography (hopefully with a different perspective), some special events that lend to creative images, and a few things that start as photographs but end as digital art creations. Stay tuned . . . for additional new work!