Mom with one of her paintings in 2000 at Melbourne, Fla. She worked with oil, acrylics, and was quite adept with water color. She took first place prizes in Florida and in Las Vegas while we lived there 1978 to 1981. She was also a very good writer and poet producing six volumes in print. Her last book signing was at Barnes & Noble in Melbourne, Fla. on July 29, 2002. That was for her book "THE TWIN AND OTHER STORIES". A collection of fictional short stories. Just before that she had published a collection of 147 of her poems titled "NOT TALKING HIGH TECH".