Growing up in a suburban town in Southern California, where orange orchards where visible all around and houses popped up in the middle of dairy fields, I've always appreciated the natural beauty California has to offer. Being influenced by my dad's creativity, I became a commercial art major in college. My husband and I raised our family in Silicon Valley or "Valley of the Hearts Delight" as it was called in Steinbeck's novel, "Grapes of Wrath". Now, living in the inland area of the central coast of California, I enjoy photography and digital art as another means of creative expression to capture the beauty that exists in the scenery and even in my own backyard.