Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait

At age eighteen Yvonne set out to build a home from trees on eighty acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. In 1975 log by log she creates a cabin and heals from an orphaned past finding a new family in the forest and with people in a valley named John Day.Babe in the Woods: Self Portrait is the second in a three-book series. It chronicles a span in Yvonnes four decades long relationship with her log cabin and the people she meets in the valley. The book continues Yvonnes story of learning to live in the wilderness within and outside of herself. It is also a story of rogue bears building a bear-proof log studio a young artists development and the trials and triumph of finding oneself alone in the back woods.