I captured this tranquil scene in the maple grove of the Seattle Arboretum, with a borrowed point and shoot camera, on an overcast day in April. The sun peeked through the clouds just enough to add some highlights to the leaves on the closest tree. I was intrigued with the delicate pink hued leaves.

I grew up in a boat loving family and met my husband through our shared love of sailing. I spend a lot of time on, and around the water.

This is the shoal beacon at the mouth of the Wicomico River, just across the Potomac from here. I took the photo in October, when moving a boat from Dahlgren to Cobb Island, to be hauled for the winter. I wanted the viewer to think of a hot summer day when looking at this, so I overexposed it a bit to make it brighter, and to soften the distant shoreline a bit more.