Posts by Madeline Cisneros

Basking in the Glow

Basking in the Glow

December 8, 2025 | by

  Jennifer Wendt’s first loves were animals. Growing up on a small farm in northeast Kansas, she was her father’s little helper. Together they’d ride tractors and combines as they tended to crops, and she’d follow him around as he checked and fed their cows. She spent her weekends with her siblings “baking” mud pies full of sticks, acorns, and fallen fruit, and riding around on her make-believe horse, also known as her bike. “I’d spend hours out in the woods tracking deer and bobcat and turkeys and anything that I could track or find, just exploring and spending time
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The Magic of the Desert

The Magic of the Desert

October 8, 2025 | by

  Canyons erupting from the earth. Cotton candy clouds looming over sunbaked cacti. Cowboys defying gravity, their weathered hands gripping the reins as their horses catapult them into the air. To landscape artist Josh Gibson, the desert Southwest is a powerful place. “It seems like, in terms of the geological formations and the kind of weather, there just aren’t other places that have that sort of thing going on,” he says. “The sunsets every day are a 10 out of 10. There are mountains that are huge blocks of rock coming out of very desolate desert plains. I haven’t really
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