Maza Studio

The new deck for our house is finally complete! The actual building stage only took the work crew a week, but preparing for the...

Close-up of flower showing the pollinia.  Two days after our hike on the Mill Prong Trail, I went back to sketch the purple fringed orc...

Purple Fringed Orchid ( Platanthera grandiflora ). On the Fourth of July David and Herb joined me for a hike at Shenandoah National ...

Purple Fringed Orchid buds. Last Saturday I went back to Skyline Drive for another try at the purple fringed orchid. After correspondin...

Mountain Laurel on Skyline Drive. My search for native orchids took me to Skyline Drive last weekend. The day was overcast, the mountai...

Looking down the trail Last Sunday I went hiking on Wildcat Mountain, a nature preserve owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy in...

The Trillium Trail at Thompson Wildlife                                                                                          ...

The Trillium Trail casts a special magic during spring. I was afraid to miss the annual miracle this year--too ironic to contemplate now ...