My creative spirit is nourished by my passion for nature. Working in clay reveals my infatuation with color, texture, form, light shadow and patterns.

What I like to do when I am working on my own piece is have a loose idea (and a sketch) of what I am doing, but I like to keep it open to how the piece is going while I am creating it.

I spent 15 challenging and fulfilling years in chemistry, and now am looking at nature through another passion.

Even though it is snowing out, people can come and get into the spring spirit. The pieces are upbeat and so moving. The overall spring look of the performers is spectacular, it's going to be a beautiful and eloquent spring Mozart performance.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take "no" with any sort of grace, a taste for go

He got close to nature. Paul was fascinated by how insects move, and he used to run after butterflies with a net,