Jennifer Lawson

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

I left a piece of my heart in Bali...

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...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...
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Fiddleheads

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                                                  Spring in Maine means Fiddleheads. Tightly curled ferns break through the forest f...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Portrait of a Schnoodle

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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...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Weekend in the Old Port—April 28-29

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Sophie and the Pitbulls Sophie and I live in the Old Port section of Portland Maine, a shopping/restaurant/waterfront part of town wher...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Sketches April 18-22

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Quick sketches from last weeks travel to work and back and then a few days home. Spring nor'easter started to blow through yesterday...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Weekly sketches April 9-13

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Weekly commuting make it more difficult to keep up with sketching, especially when it comes to adding watercolor. I've starting throwing...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Cherry Blossoms

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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...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Portland Maine—March 22, 2012—Sunny 78°

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March in Maine is usually cold, snowy, rainy, sleety and gray and this relentless dreary weather usually lasts through most of April. Spring...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

California family visit

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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...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mt Kilimanjaro—part 1

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In my daypack I carried raingear, a lightweight parka, a camelback water bladder and an extra litre bottle of water, snacks, ...
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Mt Kilimanjaro—part 2

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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...
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Mt Kilimanjaro—part 3

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Day 5— The long scramble climb up the steep Barranco Wall to Karanga Camp at 12,200 ft. Foggy, misty and cold. ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Mt Kilimanjaro—the trek to the summit—Climb High, Sleep Low

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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...
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Mt Kilimanjaro—The summit and the long downhill

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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...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro

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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....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A California Christmas

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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...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Sketching with Myrna Wacknov

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Myrna posing with our sketches I was fortunate enough to meet up with an internet friend, the talented and accomplished artist and teacher, ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Walking in the Maine woods

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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 ...
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Home

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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...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

A fall weekend in the country

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I spent a weekend in the Belgrade Lakes Region in central Maine. Beautiful lakes dotted with cottages and surrounded by mountains to the nor...
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Living, sketching and painting on the coast of Maine.
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