Criss Raintree:  

It's been great getting back in touch with some of my classmates through this website and even making new friends who attended the same school but who I'd not met until recently. Sharing memories is fun and certainly makes life more interesting and meaningful. New chapter in my life: I have moved to a little house in the woods though I'm still living in a small town in the Sierra foothills, surrounded by nature which is essential to me. I have helped start a small cooperative art gallery in a nearby town and enjoy working there, staffing, writing for publication, articles on our featured and guest artists and documenting our Gold Rush era building and historic rose garden. It's finally time to make art the focus of my life and I particularly love working in transparent watercolor, painting hummingbirds, flowers, songbirds, fruits and herbs, dragonflies and dogs and ca...Expand for more