Category: Cityscape
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Library Room | Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 The library room where the kids’ story hour takes place is mostly empty now — one chair and illuminated reminders that light travels in a straight line. The strips emphasize the room’s geometry: Parallel bands in a cube of quiet. I squat low to feel the warmth…
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Dove | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 The best explanations of how electricity works are written for fifth-graders. Circuits, electrons, energy flows, positive-negative charges — we non-electricians understand them better when descriptions are dumbed waaaay down. Even then, we can’t really comprehend the nature of amps and volts. How does electricity actually flow through…
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Car Wash | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 “Let that green light guide me in. Let that drizzle of water mist over my windshield. And let me sit back and watch those wondrous, thick colors melt and swirl in front of me, mixing and blending. Better than the greatest show in the sky because…
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Spider | Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 One mystery to ponder while waiting in the car for my spouse is Earth’s diversity of life. How could the same surface conditions — air, light, gravity — produce such varied creatures? That spider on the parking bollard has legs too wispy for nerves or blood, right? So…
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Bug Buffet | Spokane, WA | September 2019 Ravens are clever rascals. They think beyond instinct and routine to see opportunities missed by feathered friends. From high above, they use their ample shadows to scare smaller birds away from scattered seed. They eat discarded fries warmed on hot asphalt before those tossed in cool grass.…
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Passageway | Spokane, WA | September 2019 Certain places today have the feel of timeworn whereabouts — as if they belonged to the distant past. Step into a quiet plaza, under a shaded portico or through a rustic passageway, and you can sometimes sense a shift in the solidity of the real, a difference in…
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Web | Spokane, WA | September 2019 “This we know: the Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a
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Succulent | Conway, AR | September 2019 Flora #1 | A young woman at a nearby table talked on her phone as if I couldn’t hear her. “Oh my God, there’s this old guy, like, he’s right here, right in front of me, taking pictures of a stupid houseplant. Can you, like, imagine? It’s just…
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Folk Art | Mountain View, AR | September 2019 Travelogue #4 | I’m not a connoisseur of crafts, but lines and colors catch my eye. My brother and I spent an afternoon at the Ozark Folk Center State Park chatting with artists who hand-make brooms, blankets, jewelry, pottery, toys and oodles of other beautiful works.…
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Modern Antiquities | Damascus, AR | September 2019 Travelogue #3 | I’ve reached the age when everyday objects of my youth now cruise toward extinction. Specifically, a pair of bullet-nosed Ford sedans from the early 1950s rusting in a vacant lot along an Arkansas highway. What’s now home to hornets was once the best dating…
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