Beach walks and hikes don’t quite look the same anymore— I examine each step like I did as a child looking for treasure. My daughter just loves going on adventures with me now often saying “Mom, no looking at the rocks!”. Since learning how to create paint from earth pigments, I’ve continued to make palettes reflective of the places I visit. When we took a 10-day road trip to move from Arizona to Washington, I collected earth and minerals along the way and have a watercolor palette derived from our stops from Joshua Tree to the Sequoias and all along the coast—it is one of my most favorite things!