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Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.
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Marina | Chelan, WA | May 2019 The marina rests in early spring. No boats, no worries. She floats happily atop the deep unknown, rising and falling with whatever comes. Wavelets tickle her
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Sage Trunk | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 A retail clerk — a woman of about 65 — told me her husband died last year. “At first, it was hard,” she said. “I found myself drifting.” But she soon discovered that a lack of direction allowed her to grow in any direction. Now she
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Roof Lines | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 I imagine the messy existence of one workman who bolts together steel buildings. Money problems. Wife woes. Extreme body aches. All day, he pieces together the straight-line enclosures that shelter other lives, ordered and precise. He must dream of
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Kayaks | Chelan, WA | May 2019 [Oops. Yesterday many of you received a notification email for this blog post by mistake — one day early, like a glimpse into the future. Well, here it is again. The photo is the same. The commentary has been changed slightly.] Some people, possessions and situations enable us…
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Evening Sky | Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 The near and known stay sharp; the far and unfamiliar less focused. Clouds (goals, decisions, purposes) keep moving, changing shape, their final forms uncertain. The night is
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Water | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 Taoists find numerous life lessons in water. It seeks low spaces, avoiding acclaim. It flows around obstacles, yet dissolves boulders. It pools serenely, surface like glass, awaiting the
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Umbrella | Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Some consider the umbrella a sign of weakness, particularly in the drippy Pacific Northwest. (“Rain? What rain?”) But I own several. Being damp or sun-scorched (as in photo) isn’t my idea of paradise. Plus, I consider the umbrella a boundary-setting device, especially on city streets. It establishes a
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Camp Chair | Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 The history of fold-up camp chairs seems darned short. Just a few years ago, a smattering of camp chairs dotted a few backyards. A month later, they had taken over the world with dozens of brands and scores of designs. Now everybody has
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Window Abstract | Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Reflections in store windows are puzzling enough. But mental reflection — hoo boy — overlays time, memory and emotions into complex compilations that obscure, reveal and tantalize. For instance: Yesterday, a worm on a downtown sidewalk triggered a decades-old memory of
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