Diane
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Now in Oregon, but California dreaming. |
| Introduction | Google Earth Community Moderator, Panoramio member, amateur photographer and working full time in the mental health field. Crazy about Africa, just can't get enough, and have had the honor of traveling there twice. I've been an artist for most of my life, sometimes even for money. The little paintings on my first blogger post are what I call my "merchandise-art." Someday I'll photograph my "real-art" and include it here. All materials posted here are created and copyrighted by me, unless otherwise noted. |
| Interests | Painting, other people's art, music, old Russian wood houses and Orthodox churches, mud huts, beads (old and new) and making things with them, literature, foreign films (and plain old Hollywood movies), gardening, the sea, the land, good coffee, Asian cuisines, Google Earth, cultures other than my own, The Empty Quarter, Siberia, Africa, small islands in the ocean. |
| Favorite movies | Salaam Bombay!, Breaking the Waves, Sling Blade, The English Patient, About a Boy, The Van, The Snapper, Fahrenheit 9/11, Georgy Girl, Sunflower, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Siberiade, Raise the Red Lantern |
| Favorite music | Too much...too much to list! |
| Favorite books | A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Marsh Arabs, Mosquito Coast, Arabian Sands, Kalimantan, In a Sunburned Country, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, A Tale of Two Cities, Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Meadow, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Forsaken, Blood River, GULAG, all works by Mark Twain, Anita Brookner, Eudora Welty and Wallace Stegner. |