Judi now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her favorite “Art Patron”, husband Jim, and the best female hunting dog in the Southwest, their yellow lab Scout. Their adobe home, called the Casa Rio, and Judi's studio sit on the bank of the Big Tesuque River. The Big Tesuque looks more like a creek most of the time but still gurgles along between the aspens and cottonwoods and is home to multitudes of birds, especially the favored ravens and crows. Some people ask her, why crows? “I grew up with them. They are everywhere, from the hills of Kentucky, the moss of Louisiana, on the wires across Texas, and in the sunsets and legends of the Native Americans of New Mexico."

“When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all, we say that is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize that it is the work of someone more powerful than man.”
---Chased-by Bears (1843-1915), Santee-Yanktonnai Sioux