Jennifer Lawson

...so I'm going back to find it.  It has been almost two years since I was last on the "Island of the Gods" and a few day...

                                                  Spring in Maine means Fiddleheads. Tightly curled ferns break through the forest f...

Cody 6x6 oil on panel Cody is a very cute "Schnoodle" owned by my good friend and coworker Ellen in Potomac MD. For a year...

Sophie and the Pitbulls Sophie and I live in the Old Port section of Portland Maine, a shopping/restaurant/waterfront part of town wher...

Quick sketches from last weeks travel to work and back and then a few days home. Spring nor'easter started to blow through yesterday...

Weekly commuting make it more difficult to keep up with sketching, especially when it comes to adding watercolor. I've starting throwing...

My creative consulting job takes me weekly to Potomac Maryland. Last week, after being away for three weeks, I arrived to all the glory of f...

March in Maine is usually cold, snowy, rainy, sleety and gray and this relentless dreary weather usually lasts through most of April. Spring...

My dear old dad hasn't been very well lately, so off I went to California to help my family get him back on his feet. My parenst have be...

In my daypack I carried raingear, a lightweight parka, a camelback water bladder and an extra litre bottle of water, snacks, ...

Day 3— Shira Camp 2. A short hike acclimating to 12,000 ft. I got a very bad headache from the altitude, which forced me t...

Day 5— The long scramble climb up the steep Barranco Wall to Karanga Camp at 12,200 ft. Foggy, misty and cold. ...

Jambo everyone I started this adventure on January 9th in Moshi Tanzania. I met my 8 fellow treking/climbing companions who were 21-32 years...

I made it to the summit walking "slowly" or "pole pole" as they say in Swahili because the air is so thin. 6 1/2 hours s...

Today, I start my journey to Tanzania Africa to climb Mt. Kilimajaro. It is the highest freestanding mountain in the world and is 19,341 ft....

I spent Christmas visiting my family in the San Francisco Bay Area. My parents still live in the house I grew up in. They have lived there f...

Myrna posing with our sketches I was fortunate enough to meet up with an internet friend, the talented and accomplished artist and teacher, ...

Walking through the woods to the lake, there is a spot where the ground is covered with a thick soft layer of pines needles from a grove of ...

Every week I communte to Potomac Maryland for work. An hour plane ride and on a good day it is only 45 minutes from the Baltimore airport to...

I spent a weekend in the Belgrade Lakes Region in central Maine. Beautiful lakes dotted with cottages and surrounded by mountains to the nor...