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of snow that we don’t have much of around Morgan Mill. Then it snowed in December 2009… lots and lots of snow. So I went out and took forty or ffty pictures. Eventually I found a buffalo robe, for a price, disguised the girl so that you couldn’t tell if she was a boy or a girl, wearing that robe over her head; made my sorrel pony a paint horse in the picture and covered the ground with drifts of winter snow. The result is on the cover of the book.”

Debbie Lincoln has lived in large cities and in other states including fve years in Illinois. “We got tired of the cold there,” she said. Husband, Mike, is retired from Norton and the two enjoy life on their farm and annual trips in their RV. Sometimes if they feel like it, they might stay gone for awhile. One trip to Wyoming and other Far Western states took two months. “I learned to fsh for trout while staying at Jackson Hole,” Debbie smiled. “But no matter where we might go, home is always a welcome sight.” They are both involved in activities in the community and Debbie makes contributions of her artwork to various worthy causes. This past fall she contributed one of her paintings to the annual auction hosted by Stephenville Cattle Company to beneft Texas Rehab for Children. One of Debbie’s paintings, titled If Everyone Jumped Off a Cliff is currently featured on her blog. In the picture are four wild horses against a red sky. Three of the horses, all the same color are running full speed toward the edge of a cliff, manes and tails fying. The fourth horse stands alone, tail turned to the danger ahead of them, his blanketed rump showing his Appaloosa ancestry. The artist has added these lines: “I am willing to bet that at least once in your life, one of your parents said to you, ‘Well if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?’ Suffce it to say that I have occasionally been reluctant to follow the crowd and I am becoming even more so the older I get.”

No one who knows Debbie Grayson Lincoln would ever think of her as following the crowd, but rather deciding for herself. Her major at Texas Tech, after all, was Civil Engineering. She was the only girl in her class.  ECL

Eventer. Debbie’s work has been accepted by the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas and sales there are going well. Customers at the gallery like the artist’s subject matter which includes horses, cowboys, Indians, wild critters, and the Western way of life in general. A very strong outlet for artists is the Daily Painters website. “The market is for both small and medium to large works,” she said. “Blogs may post a different painting a day. There are approximately 160 members from around the world with a variety of work in many mediums.