Category: Cityscape
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Raindrops | Omak, WA | August 2019 Rodeo #2 | Drizzle intensifies the scent of lariats, leather and livestock. As one female rodeo fan yelled, “Hoo-wee! Do I smell wet cowboy?” Bronc busters and bull riders aren’t fazed, of course, by sporadic sprinkles. When you’re straddling a 1,500-pound dynamo, rain and the resulting aromas are
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Cow Art | Ellensburg, WA | August 2019 I don’t usually feature other people’s artwork in this blog. But I like the placement of a painted fiberglass cow in the crux of brickwork. It’s a good reminder that vast areas of sameness — urban sprawl, desert landscapes, routine office tasks, reality TV shows — often…
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Hallway | Eunice, LA | July 2019 Light often illuminates the darkest spaces in the most interesting ways. Sun rays bounced off a mirror and through two doorways to reach this interior wall. Says Ingo Maurer, a German industrial designer and artist, “Light can be sensual. It can be comforting. It can even be
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Arc | Wenatchee, WA | August 2019 We all stand at the intersection of multiple arcs. For example: Life span (I’m on the downward slope), knowledge (climbing steadily), health (maintaining with effort). At a single point on the curve, however, it’s easy to forget that
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Back of Bloom | East Wenatchee, WA | August 2019 Don’t forget the under, the rear, the flip side. It’s below and behind where much of life’s mechanics take place. Power lines, food deliveries, maintenance tasks often intersect behind the facade, at the rear door. When progress is hindered or entry blocked, when questions remain…
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Ninth Floor View | Airway Heights, WA | August 2019 Our hotel room window opened onto a curving roadway where a confusion of lines, shapes and shadows competed for my attention. A white car turned onto the road below and, almost instantly, lent weight to the scene’s center, added cohesiveness to the whole. Don’t we…
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Buddha | Waterville, WA | July 2019 Buddha loiters on the fringes, I’ve noticed. He stands dusty on book shelves, next to shoe boxes in closets, peeking from windows in small towns. He seeks the low places — no spotlight, applause or worship — where his smile might lift a heavy heart. Perhaps we find…
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Under an Overpass | Post Falls, Idaho | July 2019 We’re meant to be on top of bridges, not beneath. I’m comfortable traversing chasms on a sturdy roadway with guard rails. But a walk through a span’s dim underside always puts me on alert, as if I’m trespassing in engineering’s secret world. (Stress points and…
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View through Dirty Window | Post Falls, Idaho | July 2019 Static can fog our lives. Everyday distractions divert attention from the real world, the right now. Focus becomes a luxury. One guru recommends a Senses Census — noting in the moment what you see, hear, taste, smell, feel — to plug into the present.…
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Cow Train | Peshastin, WA | July 2019 The mini-train that looped through the park in 1965 sometimes took a spur line behind some zoo cages, including the monkey house. The primates (actually apes, not monkeys) would pause in their activities — eating, grooming, playing — to sit in a line at the fence and…
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