Category: Cityscape
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Shirts on Sale | East Wenatchee, WA | July 2019 In 1974, I worked in a giant warehouse filled with clothing donated by major retailers. The stuff they couldn’t sell would be sorted, boxed and shipped to Catholic missions in Central America. One day, in a mountain of jumbled garments, I found a cache of…
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Morning with Tree | Steptoe, WA | June 2019 Light and shadow, shape and color are all that’s required to awaken wonder. Sure, it’s nice to soak up the splendor of the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls, but spectacle can also be found
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Crepe Myrtle at Dawn | Houston, TX | July 2019 The unveiling of the day has become a favorite spectacle. Not so much the gradual lightening of the landscape, but rather the first splashes of sunlight on objects placed just so. Mailbox, fence edge, tree trunks brighten with photons that traveled 93 million miles to
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Chiffon | Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 You might say this wedding dress embodies the swirl of life — love, marriage, kids, care and attention deep into old age. Not so obvious are interwoven layers of discovery and rediscovery that enfold what’s important. You know: Those overlays and overlaps, repeated through the years, that teach
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Museum | Pullman, WA | June 2019 Mirror-sided buildings offer opportunities for reflection. They appear ethereal — thin, light, transparent — yet often anchor a cluster of more traditional, more solid structures. Enlightened people do the same. They stand centered in themselves and their surroundings, fully engaged yet slightly apart, receiving yet giving. Their presence…
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Airplane Hangars | Colfax, WA | June 2019 Men push small planes from tight hangars. Wings bounce as if too flimsy to fly. The guys check struts, tires, cowlings and fuel tanks, then squeeze into cockpits and crank the engines. Loud, even from 100 yards away. On takeoff, each plane divulges its pilot’s disposition —…
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Grain Elevator | Eltopia, WA | June 2019 Up in the air. Head in the clouds. Sky’s the limit. Ways to describe our boundless potential seem … well, boundless. What I’ve found, however, is that our most comfortable position is more down-to-earth with both feet on the ground. That stance provides
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Culverts | Stratford, WA | June 2019 From here, we look for passage to there. Sometimes it’s a big pipe under the road. But more often we transition with help from a person or situation. Store cashiers (shopping to ownership), gym workouts (weakness to strength), religion (seeking to finding). In fact, we’re slip-sliding along one…
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Statue’s Hand | Odessa, WA | June 2019 Hands tell tales. Their age spots, large veins, calloused fingers and folds of skin chronicle our triumphs and failures. More than faces, which can be creamed and tightened, hands hold evidence of life lived. In the grip of struggle; in the clutch of
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Trash Cans | Coulee City, WA | June 2019 Catholic confession is like tossing sins into a trash can, said the priest. “The sins still exist, but you’ve peeled them off your soul and plopped them in the garbage.” Well, maybe. It’s unclear what happens to those tossed transgressions, but the image of a Divine…
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