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This locust tree is in my front yard and I love it! In winter the bare branches carry the snow beautifully and are spotlighted in my front bedroom window. Then in spring, the leaves start to appear rather late so it gives all the needed sun to my azaleas and redbud tree below. In the summer it is majestic, beautiful, full and taller than my 3 story house. But the highlight of the year for me is in autumn when my entire window is a solid golden blaze of glorious, tiny, yellow-as-can-be leaves that change color before many other trees do and then hang on far longer than most. And to make the fantasy even better, they drop in showers of gold to create a bright, warm carpet of my entire front yard, but then just blow away, at night, as in Camelot!

My full name is Jodie Marie Anne Richardson Traugott. I use my initials jm-ART and/or my tattoo of a star as my signature. Although I never liked art through high school, I "discovered" it in my early 20's and have never stopped creating since. Photography is my latest love, but I've been a painter for over 50 years. I consider myself a Renaissance woman with my hand in many disciplines and a love for all artistic ways and means. Because of that, my work is all over the map...in style, medium and intent. I look at that as a strength, not a weakness! I will show a variety of work, but one main focus of my art is my granddaughter, Arianna. She calls herself Nana and has become my muse and my obsession. I can't stop painting and...