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A view of the Fresno River. My husband grew up on the Mendota Wildlife Area in western Fresno County, California. Although we now live in the city of Fresno (about 40 miles away) some of the families he grew up with still call him to service their pools. I usually go along with my camera and we stop so I can take reference photos. This is a painting of the Mendota Slough bridge crossing.

Gail Daley is a self-taught artist and writer with a background in business. An omnivorous reader, she was inspired by her son, also a writer, to finish some of the incomplete novels she had begun over the years. She is heavily involved in local art groups and fills her time reading, writing, painting in acrylics, and spending time with her husband of 40 plus years. Currently her family is owned by two cats, a mischievous young cat called Mab (after the fairy queen of air and darkness) and a mellow Gray Princess named Moonstone. In the past, the family shared their home with many dogs, cats and a Guinea Pig, all of whom have passed over the rainbow bridge. A recent major surgery on her stomach and a bout with breast cancer has slowed her...