The Sunday after Thanksgiving, November 27, is designated as Artists Sunday, a day to support local artists, creators and performers. More than 4,500 professional artists and almost 600 nonprofit art organizations, municipalities and commercial businesses collaborate to offer one-of-a-kind shopping with original works of art, crafts and experiences. This nationwide event champions local artists and…

(Painting by Rebecca Baldwin) Rebecca Baldwin takes vacations in places that lend themselves to the landscape painting she is known for. This fall that was biking the Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes in Idaho, a 73-mile long paved trail (a former railroad route) that passes through forests and marshlands and skirts Lake Coeur d’Alene and…