Category: IrwinFoto365
Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.
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Derelict School | Soap Lake, WA | January 2020 City, county and school officials have argued for years that something needs to be done about this abandoned building. Asbestos, rodents, drug needles, homeless encampments — the place has its problems, that’s for sure. But the old Delancey-Houghton Elementary School is also one of the town’s…
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Eyes | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that
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Garlic Stalk | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Aftermath is often an unappreciated condition. It can be as alluring or heartrending as the original object or event. I’m thinking of a field of untouched snow etched an hour later by hundreds of ski tracks. Or the stark, horrible beauty of a burned forest. Or…
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Light Snow | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Inclement weather can help us notice what goes mostly unnoticed. A dusting of snow accentuates shapes and textures, like an expert application of facial cosmetics. (Were those lips and eyelashes there all along?) On trees, snow will highlight bark toughened against northern winds, roots thickened in…
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Mo(u)rning Dove | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Sun on clouds, dove on wire, poop on car — a chain of events that slid quickly from grand to groan. That’s because one vestige of birds’ dinosaur lineage is that they don’t pee. Instead, they squirt a nitrogenous paste that sticks like glue to windshields…
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Windowsill | Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 The alleyways that lace downtown are portals to another time. Century-old buildings, ad murals from the 1930’s, loading docks unused for decades, windows draped since World War II. These old-time elements lubricate the imagination so we can easily envision the commercial bustle of a pre-electronic age. You know:…
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Lamp | Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 One of life’s true luxuries — along with an unplanned day and, oh yeah, a good ice scraper — is a comfortable place to read. It’s the first thing I look for in expensive showplace homes. Not hardwood floors, not granite countertops, not jetted soaking tubs, but an…
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Wet Road | Royal City, WA | January 2020 When you first hear the road calling, it’s best to wash the dishes, make the bed and take out the garbage. A day or so later when it beckons again, fill a water bottle, grab an apple, find your hat and gloves, and put them all…
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Circle Rut | Beverly, WA | January 2020 Every now and then I snap out of life’s trance to realize I’ve been trapped in a circle rut. Making noise, burning gas, spinning round and round but going nowhere. Last week, I stumbled across my first motorcycle circle rut as I wandered the Beverly Dunes, a…
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Pistachios | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Snacking on pistachios offers rewards not found in most other naturally-encased foods. It takes just two seconds to pry open a pistachio shell with your fingers and pop the nut in your mouth. Compare that to the dynamite needed to dent a walnut. Or the jackhammer required…
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