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  • Two more images June 2026

    Two more images June 2026

    And the official winning names are… (drum roll please)…

    Oregon Rainbow Connection (A) and Oregon Rowena Spring* (B). And Kara from @gilded_green on Insta gets a free small card of choice at any market she catches me at for helping me name the first one! (I’ll be tagging her on Insta tomorrow, Tuesday 6/16.)

    * ETA 6/17/26 – I changed my mind at the last minute on this one, from Oregon Spring TO Rowena Spring, because “Oregon Spring” felt too grandiose, and would prevent me from using it for any other image in the future that might better capture that title. So, Rowena spring, showing the beautiful wild lupin and arrow balsamroot in bloom. Apologies for any confusion!

    Photo showing a color photo notecard with a view looking northeast from Menucha Retreat center in Oregon of a rainbow beaming into a white cloud over the Columbia gorge against a blue sky.
    Oregon Rainbow Connection (A)
    Photo of a color photo notecard (labeled B) showing a lovely view from Rowena Point outside of Mosier, Oregon overlooking rolling hills covered in blue and yhellow wildlfowers. (Lupin and Arrowroot.)
    Rowena Spring (B)
    Colorful promo graphic with green middle on yellow about the Solstice Market June 20th from 12-5 pm at the Multnomah French Quarter 3518 SW Multnomah Blvd in Portland featuring Photograbee.
    Solstice Market Promo June 2026

    Everyone else gets $2 off any single small card (not in a set of 3) if you correctly tell me the winning name for Card A with the rainbow in person (without looking at the label on the back first!) at The Solstice Market coming up next Saturday June 20th at the Multnomah French Quarter 3518 SW Multnomah Blvd in Portland 12-5 pm. (Free admission, family-friendly, lots of food and crafts to be had!) And don’t miss our overflow location at Local Collective 7830 SW 35th just across the street and up one block with even more great artists and vendors! Definitely catch both spots!

    For those not following me on social media, you missed out on my plea for help naming these two images. I was struggling for unknown reasons -I’m normally pretty good at picking names. Not this time!

    I’m considering them to be part of my Scenics lineup (Line C) as I consider them to be gotten while traveling versus while studying bees and flowers in my neighborhood or garden more closely. Though yes, Oregon Spring features flowers. But they are our native wildflowers (blue Lupin and yellow arrow balsamroot aka “Oregon Sunflower”) viewed from Rowena Point out near Mosier off I-84 east of Portland in 2011.

    The rainbow appeared as if by magic at the end of a long rainy weekend of music making at the Menucha Retreat Center just as the faculty concert was starting. Everyone else headed into the concert (rightly so), but I saw the sun break out below the cloud layer just then too, so I chased the light over to this view and voila! A rainbow beaming down right over the Columbia River as I looked northeast from the campus. (Cue choir of angels.)

    Yeah, I was late to the concert and caught heck for it, but can you blame me? This is NOT photoshopped! Just lightly color-enhanced. It was this magical in person. (Menucha Retreat Center is on the old highway overlooking I-84 and the Gorge just west of Vista House at Crown Point for those familiar with the area. You can get to the old highway out of Troutdale, just east of Portland. You won’t see this from I-84, which puts you below the cliffside.)

    Okay, back to bees-ness. I’m out of hummingbirds~! And need to print some larger Oregon Rainbow Connections! See you soon, hopefully! (In cooler weather too, phew.) – Jan Mon 6/15/26

    Photo showing two color photo notecards one above the other. The top one shows a rainbow beaming down into a white cloud over the Columbia Gorge as viewed looking northweast from Menucha Retreat Center in 2010. The second shows blue and yellow native wildflowers from Rowena Point outside of Mosier, Oregon 2011.

  • Just added Mt Hood to line-up too

    I failed to include a fifth new image to you all in my last blog post about fresh images I was bringing to the Radical Harvest Market back on 4/11-4/12.

    I snuck in one of Mt Hood in full very snowy splendor too shown in this shot of the card mix I failed to share:

    Aerial shot looking down on an array of five of Jan's small colorful photo notecards featuring clockwise from top left: Mt St Helens up close, a honeybee in a golden choriopsis blossom in the sun, a colorful spray of pink and salmon cone flowers, a joyful shot from a little beneath a patch of bright orange California poppies reaching for the blue sky, and a bright white shot of a very snow-covered Mt Hood with a dark green tree line coming in from the left at the bottom against a blue sky. These are set on a couple of emerald green plastic mailers on top of a dark blue velvet blanket for contrast.

    I know, I know, I need to update my catalog on the website here too! I will. Soon, I hope. I was abducted by programming aliens for the last three months, and they just released the body at the end of March, a bit battered and bruised. (Or at least my brain was.) I’ve been recovering ever since, and scrambling to catch up here. Thanks for your patience.

    (The photo above does not do the cards justice, you really have to see them in person!)

    Keep an eye on my Upcoming Shows page, the summer craft market season is in full swing now. I’ll have at least one or more shows per month pretty soon.

    Jan 4/14/26

  • A teaser of prints to come…March 2026

    Although my new customers love the prints I’ve been offering for the last six months, I’m getting a few repeat customers now. And thought I’d freshen things up a bit by adding a few new images.

    Including my first new Scenic shot that is not Multnomah Falls, smile. (Yes, we love my frozen falls shots but variety is nice too!)

    Photo of a print of a close-up photo of Mt St Helens in the summer 2024. It's partly snow-covered in soft sunlight. View is south into the dome.
    Mt St Helens close

    I have many many more where these came from, I just lack the time to process and produce everything yet. But I’m squeezing it in as I can.

    These will first be available to buy in person at the April Radical Harvest Market in SE Portland. And on eBay if I can get my stuff together!

    Dueling coneflower prints in salmon, peach and orange hues.
    Colorful coneflowers 2025

    I’m also breaking in a new printer as my trusty old one finally spit out her parts, forcing my hand. And am back in touch with my old friend, fine art printer Jim Dittmer of JDA Creative Color. (He came to see me at the last Spot Market 3/14-15.) He hasn’t retired, he just closed his storefront in inner southeast Portland making me think so! Nope! Still going strong out in Gresham, just east of Portland. Check him out if you need any fine art scanning or printing done. He really knows his stuff, along with his son Matt.

    I’m printing up to 8×10 myself still at home, but hope to have larger fine art prints and posters with Jim’s help soon. (No dates set yet, but for sure by this Christmas.)

    Shot of a colorful mix of joyful prints - a due of bright orange california poppies on top of a macro of a honey bee in a yellow flower on top of a black printer.
    Colorful mix coming

    Ciao for now – Jan 3/23/26

  • Only available at CHB for now (Oct 2025)

    While I do plan to make some copies of my award-winning Multnomah Falls shot available on eBay, right now they are only available to buy as small cards at Crystal Heart Boutique in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon. (269 E Main Street. The MAX Blue Line stops one block away!)

    Aerial photo looking down at the front side of two small photo notecards featuring upper Multnomah Falls frozen (including the Benson bridge) on the left, and the lower falls frozen on the right. A wooden ruler shows beneath for scale.
    Aerial shot looking down on two photonotecards featuring frozen Multnomah Falls. The upper falls with the Benson bridge is on the left, the lower falls on the right. A wooden ruler shows on the left for scale.

    Grab them while you can! They are one of my most popular images. Especially for out-of-town guests and friends.

    They’d make great gifts for Christmas too!

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