Category: IrwinFoto365
Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.
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Utility Hook | Twisp, WA | February 2020 How long can a crusty old soul be of service to society? What’s left after you knock off the rust? This weathered hook, now retired and basking in the sun, spoke to me of its decades of usefulness. Keeping the garden hose coiled. Holding the handle-end of…
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Feathers | Twisp, WA | February 2020 Despite his $60 hairdo and preference for grilled salmon, our poodle Joey loves to roll on dead things. He sniffs out deer carcasses, coyote skins and decaying bird bodies even in winter under a foot of snow. Out recently for a midnight pee, he made a beeline for…
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Fog | Quincy, WA | January 2020 Fog is always mysterious, but standing in heavy mist swirled by an unfelt breeze is even more unsettling. You can see the air. It flows in currents like water, rising and falling, circling back in eddies caused by trees, boulders, me. With my back to the wind, I…
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Star | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 This spray of hair on the forehead of an otherwise dark horse indicates deep genetics at play. Or the horse simply scratched his head on a nail, and the hair grew funny. Scientists, who seem unsure of what causes the stars and blazes on horse faces, also…
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Hotel Lamp | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | Furniture is what gets photographed when it’s too stormy to go outside. Hey, are you rolling your eyes? This is a tried-and-true creativity exercise practiced for decades by professional photographers lounging around in their jammies. Admittedly, it’s not a dramatic nature scene that…
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Storm Watcher | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | Rogue waves can happen, say the posted warning signs, especially during incoming tides. But this guy hopscotched from sand patch to sand patch so he could stand amid surf and get the full effect of an approaching storm. Thankfully, odds were in his…
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Mossy Road | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | We vacation at the beach but live where wet things dry fast. I wash my hands in summer and shake off the big drops so my skin can air-dry in about 30 seconds. Thus, we residents of arid eastern Washington tend to forget…
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Sand in Shell | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | At the beach, sand infiltrates crevices I’d hoped were sand-proof. Yesterday I found an abundance of it in my ears (despite a knit cap) and between my toes (laced into snow boots). What the hell? A similar kind of irritant also works…
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Storm Erosion | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | A stormy beach offers good lessons in change and impermanence. The sand is like an Etch-A-Sketch, drawn and redrawn by the onslaught of wind, rain, surf and tides. What we embrace one day — a winding creek, giant cedar logs, great swirls of…
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