Cheryl Petty

Cheryl Petty, writer and artist, lives in Northern California and works in Beijing, PR China.
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Cheryl Petty

Writer and artist, lives in Northern California and works in Beijing, PR China.
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Our house in snow

Dunsmuir Breakfast Letter March 6, 2012 Apple Street

Sha Li March 7, 2012

Suddenly, like a page torn out of a book, that's how life comes at you. Cable sign and Mt Shasta BaiSha

Walking on Apple Street hill, farther up, I find another road made for fiber optic installation, big red and white signs.  Walking north on the new road, eventually, in a short distance, I come across where Roseburg Lumber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseburg_Forest_Products made a small irregular clear cut this past summer behind the Dunsmir Elementary School.http://sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us/~desftp/

Yellow pine seedlings and Mt Shasta BaiSha

Now small trees about 2-3-feet tall (61 - 91cm), mostly yellow pine pinus ponderosa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_ponderosa , thickly dot the slope.  Timber companies in California are not allowed to make clear cuts exceeding around 10-15 acres (4-6 hectares).  Using best timber harvesting practices developed first in New Zealand, harvesters leave several large, mature trees here and there which can make cones with viable seeds.  The outline of the cut is irregular, hidden from view of the public as much as possible.  Piles of slag (debris, unusable logs and branches) remain for erosion control and wildlife habitat. http://cpr.ca.gov/cpr_report/Issues_and_Recommendations/Chapter_5_Resource_Conservation_and_Protection/RES21.html

Mountain Quail orortyx pictushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Quail or Ring Tail Pheasant phasianus colchicus http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Pheasant/lifehistory/ac   flutter up in a sudden cloud.  The pheasant was introduced from Asia and is a popular game bird in the new world.

Ribbon marker

In the distance Mt Shasta is white with snow, BaiShan.  I tie a red and yellow ribbon on the branch, marking where to turn down into the trees.

On Feb 26 2012 5 planets were in the night sky with the moon on the same night.  I got a picture of the moon and two planets.  I cropped to the closest planet, Jupiter.  http://earthsky.org/tonight/see-all-five-visible-planets-in-the-february-evening-sky

The last shipping box arrived today from China.  Full of art books and special colored and patterned papers for art collage.

Soon it will be spring.  Every time it snows could be the last.  Buds swell and push.  Who knows what the Chinese characters mean?

See you later

Bamboo and snow

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June 10, 2017

Sha Li excavated drawing pens from art storage, bought a new bottle of Higgins ink and is creating illustrations for the new book series   Origin of the Human Hybrids  .

Sha Li excavated drawing pens from art storage, bought a new bottle of Higgins ink and is creating illustrations for the new book series Origin of the Human Hybrids.


From the first pages of Origin of the Human Hybrids, the character, Mai Martin, is pregnant and struggles for control of her body after a dramatic collapse and revivication involving manufactured blood carrying miniature nano bots developed by the American government. This Sci bi – Science fiction bio sub genre – illustrated story about high technology in the near future, when humanity attempts to save itself with advances in nanotechnology and the creation of augmented humans, is 113 pages, 27,800 words, and 13 illustrations.


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"You play well for a dead man, ZHAO," says GAO. "Tell us about your ordeal?" "The man, DONG, was in our cabin with a knife. He jumped onto the next ship when I fell into the space between." "They looked for you for weeks. Martin Taitai was distraught."
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Cheryl Petty

Cheryl Petty, writer and artist, lives in Northern California and works in Beijing, PR China.

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