Category: Cityscape
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Golf Course | Richland, WA | June 2019 Golf is laden now with high fees and heavy gear. But as a young man, I played cheap rounds in early mornings with a single hybrid club — a five-iron/putter combo — and balls scavenged from the pond. At sunrise, it was mostly just me and the…
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Construction | West Richland, WA | June 2019 How the world is made continues to fascinate. I recently stood mesmerized by a tortilla machine that used a conveyor belt to introduce dough balls to their fate (flattened, seared, stacked). The crane in this photo hoisted joists 12 stories for assembly, said the guy next to…
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LIGO | Hanford, WA | June 2019 Black holes and neutron stars collided long ago to produce gravity waves that ripple through the fabric of the universe. Which means the Earth, your body and that breakfast burrito you ate in the car were all crinkled for an instant by distant cataclysms. Me? I hardly noticed.…
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Shed | Trinidad, WA | June 2019 Emptiness has its own allure. Blank landscapes, barren hills, cloudless skies, walls enclosing nothing. It’s my desired mental state, if only for a
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Ceiling | Pullman, WA | June 2019 Look up. It’s the angle on life that’s consistently surprising. Skywriting, shooting stars, birds in the rafters of Home Depot. Meanwhile, ground-level activities such as food, phones, friends, football distract us from the
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Student Union | Pullman, WA | June 2019 I’ve heard college has become immensely stressful. It’s competitive, expensive and just plain hard to learn amid distractions of the digital age. Yet it’s still a privilege — isn’t it? — to spend years exploring the subject that interests you most? To become an expert on, say,…
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Rodeo Rider | Coulee City, WA | May 2019 Not sure what makes a young man ease onto the back of a bronc or bull. It’s not a natural act; even cowboys should avoid bone-crushing brutes. But I like observing the get-ready routines — fitting of gloves, adjustment of ropes, setting of hat just so…
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Sign at Sunset | Coulee City, WA | May 2019 When I was a kid in Louisiana, Mom would sometimes drive us 40 miles to a Holiday Inn for comforts we lacked at home. Air conditioning, swimming pool, color TV, little soaps, drinking glasses wrapped in paper. “Honey, see if you can find some ice…
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Feral Cat | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Urban Nature Series | Our neighborhood’s free-roaming felines have admirable qualities. Cleverness: They’ve trained numerous homeowners to feed them daily. Resourcefulness: They sleep in winter under the warm engines of just-parked vehicles. Hopefulness: They freeze like statues (see photo) near bird feeders to
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Osprey | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Urban Nature Series | Our local raptors scout prey from atop power poles and fence posts. They’ve found perfect perches in a tree-deficient landscape. Plus, they hunt with nary a peep about civilization’s encroachment or ruined habitat. I wish I could adapt so well. My gym rearranged…
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