Grace Hughes Chappell has lived nearly all of her adult life in northern California. After raising their children in San Francisco, she and her husband decided they needed to continue having a grand challenge in their lives so they moved to acreage in Mendocino County along a feeder stream of the Eel River and, for some twenty-four years, have cultivated a garden and an apple orchard there. Grace’s work has been widely published and her chapbook, ten mile creek almanac, has just been released from Finishing Line Press.  When she remembers to, Grace posts entries at gracehugheschappell.blogspot.com.