Audrey Schumacher Moe, M-D’56

Beachwalk cover photoBeachwalk, An Everyday Journey Through Sea, Sand, and Soul, by Audrey Schumacher Moe, M-D’56. Hardcover, 144 pages, more than 100 watercolor illustrations by the author, Walk Publishing, LLC (www.walkpublishing.com), June 2004.

Audrey Schumacher Moe has illustrated Blue Gates, a children’s book; been published in Celebrate the Bolsa Chica, an anthology; and is working on a cartoon book about retirement, as well as on Desertwalk, a sequel to Beachwalk. She and her husband are currently residents of the desert, having moved from Corona del Mar, on the California coast, to the Coachella Valley of southern California.

In Beachwalk, Schumacher Moe writes about nature — and more than nature. She captures the essence of the outdoors from the smallest of creatures to the grandeur of mountains and, through dedicated observation, relates details easily missed by the casual observer. Then, she fills in the picture with exotic and little-known scientific details, celebrating the importance of the ant as well as the orchid. While describing her daily walks, she sees past the obvious and digs into the inner self and, with her finely crafted watercolors, she shows us her treasures.

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