Category: IrwinFoto365
Photos and comments posted daily from 2017 to 2020.
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Holiday Destiny | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 Today I’m dishing up four classic riddles (OK, they’re really stupid jokes) for Thanksgiving Day. Use them as childish distractions whenever anyone tries to talk politics at the table …
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Doorway | Twisp, WA | 2018 It’s easy to just keep going, just continue down the street we know so well. But that dim and mysterious doorway calls to us every time we pass, and the call keeps getting
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Mooring | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 American author James Baldwin once wrote, “People can’t invent their mooring posts — their lovers and their friends — anymore than they can invent their parents.” At lake’s edge, I stood pondering my own life’s moorings — spouse, siblings, career, home — and how their rooted placements have
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14 Geese | Medical Lake, WA | 2018 “Inside calm minds, great ideas swim serenely … like
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Drifter | Chelan, WA | 2017 The solo traveler escapes the social influences that tug him out of shape. In daily life, family, friends, work, Internet, household chores and a hundred other hooks grab, pull, stretch until he sometimes doesn’t recognize himself. Alone and free, his habits, his thinking, his very soul, reconstitute into core…
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I Am Batman | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 If we all have secret identities, as some psychologists suggest, then perhaps our truths are revealed best in shadows. My bat soul emerged while I pumped gas at a local station; my essential nature shaped by
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Power Line/Contrail | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 The thin line between matter and vapor — the physical and ephemeral — begs occasional acknowledgment. At the edge of sleep, we often flutter back-and-forth from one world to the next, one state of consciousness to another. In nature — atop mountains, in deep forest, gliding underwater…
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Volcanoes | Cascade Range, Washington and Oregon | 2018 Airline pilots often point out America’s wonders: the Rockies, the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, the Mississippi River. On a recent flight, the captain suggested we take a peek at some peaks — a line of volcanoes comprising the central Cascade Range. I think that’s
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Restroom | Twisp, WA | 2017 One of life’s great gifts is the unexpected bathroom. I speak of ones hidden amid the urban maze or installed miles into what we all thought was wilderness. The ones for which some sympathetic soul — a highway engineer or Forest Service ranger — decided that
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Path | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 A decade ago this path was little more than a deer track weaving through grass and brush. But deer are efficient creatures; they know the shortest route between two points. So the animal trail was soon discovered by
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