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I enjoy walking my dog in French Park in Cincinnati. This stream flows through the center of the park and has beautiful reflections. If you choose the trail along the creek you will have to hop from rock to rock on several crossings. The creek is seldom more than eighteen inches deep and in most places it's only six inches deep flowing over lots of stones and bedrock.

My family owned a technical illustration firm so I spent part of my youth observing illustrators produce impossibly complicated projects for Fortune 500 clients. The advantage of my exposure to the profession was simply that I knew the seemingly impossible could be done and that it required an unbelievable work ethic to accomplish.I was not that interested in an illustration career, but I loved to paint. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to a BFA program and then to an MFA degree program in painting. I have had highly divergent influences. After teaching for several years for Ohio U I wrote the art degrees at Shawnee State University and became their first department chair before retiring from FT teaching in 2005. I moved to...