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On the way to our former home in Lake Arrowhead, California, we used to drive through this pass every time we went up or down �the hill.� Highway 18 is a very scenic drive. This section was cut through the natural slope of the mountain and was closed often because of car-sized boulders falling onto the highway.
The foothills of the mountains are naturally wild. The drive can be very pleasant or very dangerous depending on the weather, but never the same. In summer, when these otherwise unnoticeable plants were in bloom, they looked like giant, majestic candelabras scattered throughout the countryside gracing the hillsides with their gloriously tall stalks.
As I was searching for the perfect one to photograph for a painting, I noticed that the most symmetrical one was on the most steep and dangerous place, one of the passes that was cut through the mountain, on Highway 18.
Another thing that I learned about these wild rugged beauties is that they have a symb...

Picasso said that “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” For Karen, this is true. What you are seeing is a partial glimpse of her life’s journey. Karen Faire is an author and an award winning artist living in Fairhope, Alabama with Shane, her husband of 33 years. Before their marriage, she worked in the custom automotive industry painting airbrush murals on vans, cars, boats, motorcycles, and “anything that moved.” She fell in love with color and had an epiphany: “I thought that the only way to improve the color that I was working with would be to have light coming through it.” She knew immediately what her next medium would be: glass! She apprenticed in a company that made reproductions of Tiffany lamps. She...