Mary Margaret Rose Wright

From High School I went to Nazareth for a fine art major. After marriage and college graduation it was off to West Virginia where he was in park management and designing a zoo. I taught art in a rural school system where the goal was to make it through 8^th grade, so you can go to work in a coal mine. Summers and weekends were managing an art gallery and traveling.

A couple years of that and we were off to Florida, where he worked at Bush Gardens preparing for management positions, while I was the private seamstress for a cool wealthy gal.

Too hot in Florida when June came, so why not try Alaska? Off we went in a truck and camper, up the dirt highway through Canada. I landed a fabulous job as art consultant for the Anchorage School System and also taught art education classes at colleges, while fabric dying and weaving. I read about the indoor plant leasing and maintenance business, and how successful it was in LA, so why not try it! (Should have thought about the fact that tropical plants are not the easiest to care for when 30 below 0.) The business grew until I retired from education. Renting and maintaining plants to offices, restaurants and homes expanded to exterior landscaping, and interior design and construction management. Alaska was a great experience, with free time in summers spent rafting, hiking and fishing, and winters skiing, with frequent business trips to Hawaii, the NW and California.

Somewhere through the years, we divorced and I was too busy for kids (poor parents….no grandchildren from me).

When it hit 0 degrees in October of 1992, I had enough of the cold winters and left with the memories for the NW. Many of my clients had moved here, so it was easy to start up my design and construction business in Seattle. Love living here with eclectic assortment of people and beautiful country with mountains and water, and four seasons, but none too severe. Happy and thankful life has been good to me.

(See picture) – The trouble with being our age is that the candles on our birthday cake could burn down the restaurant!