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I neither make music nor work wood, although as a college student I earned money singing in a coffeehouse (and playing rather poorly on a secondhand Goya classic guitar). Does being mechanical count? Through lack of competent and/or willing mechanics I had to learn how to service and repair my lovely little TR-3, and I'm also not bad on general computer troubleshooting, although the G4 seems a little less intuitive than my previous Macs.
In terms of geographical areas, NJ is usually not viewed as a scenic environment but our region is quite beautiful if you like marshes, rivers, and bayscapes. We are at the northern edge of many southern species' ranges and have fairly mild but often snowy winters and warm (make that hot, this year) humid summers. Were the Mason-Dixon line to be continued eastward we would be south of it. Portraiture is not highly sought after here but there are other compensations. I live on a federally designated Wild and Scenic river and the bird life is remarkably varied in our county because of our mixture of forests, fields, farms, marshes and waterways. It's a wonderful place. Our watershed also has a high proportion of the state's threatened and endangered species.
Which brings me to another question: how many artists are also environmentalists? That might be a more natural tie-in for landscape painters, but there sometimes does seem to be a correlation.
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