—LUMINOUS pools, granite rhythms, and a cascade that anchors the entire composition. This piece came alive only after I began glazing into the surface—subtle warms pushed the granite forward, cool veils settled the shadows, and transparent passes of green and gold unified the water. In the video I walk through exactly how I used those glazes: thin layers of transparent earths to warm the rock faces, hints of ultramarine and thalo turquoise to cool the falls, and a final sweep of transparent yell

This summer, contractor Granite Construction completed built a roundabout at the busy SR 9/Bickford Avenue intersection in Snohomish in just five days! This process normally takes months as most of the time traffic is not completely blocked/detoured away from the work, meaning crews have to work around that. To accomplish this, we closed SR 9 in Snohomish and crews worked around-the-clock to not only build the roundabout but shift how traffic uses the busy intersection of SR 9 and Bickford Avenu