The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Money and time.

Most people wish they had more of both. Rare is the person who feels they have adequate amounts of each.

But as important and necessary as money and time are, there are two elements that are just as, or even more important-two elements that we simply can't get too much of:

Hope and encouragement.

Watercolor painter Shawna Wright focuses on these two elements in her paintings. The Milton-Freewater, Ore., artist, who began seriously painting five years ago, creates watercolor images of birds in nature. Integral to each image is a hand-written Bible scripture, generally one wit...