Category: Cityscape
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Farm Boy | Ellensburg, WA | 2013 To my eye, he had all the markings of a rough-cut country teen: worn jeans, faded western shirt, scuffed work boots. But his hat didn’t fit the stereotype. It was narrow-brimmed, quite stylish, with a fresh red rose tucked in the band. He’d left his girl in the…
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Balloon | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Give a fresh helium balloon its freedom and — zip! — that sucker’s airborne. But wait a day, after its skyward urge has waned, and it’ll hover at eye level with an expectant tilt to its big bald head. What now? it seems to ask. I once tracked…
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Empty | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 The convention ends, the bustle wanes, and the tables are cleared of registration forms and brochures. I relish the contrast from before — the crowds, clamor and confusion — and delight in
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Doorway | Los Cerrillos, NM | 2013 The world is thick with physical and mental doors that lead to the unknown. Exploration begins with stepping through — to new spaces, new ideas, new opportunities. For me, this photo blog is one such doorway. It’s a time-travel portal that
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Cowboy | Fort Worth, TX | 2013 I wandered away from the hundreds of tourists at the Fort Worth Stockyards, the Texas livestock industry’s historical district, and found myself alone in the quiet offices of the former cattle market. The structure’s high ceilings, wood floors, old photos and artifacts captured a bygone era of cattle…
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Window | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 The guy who scavenged the parking lot for coins and cigarette butts pointed at the high window and said, “Bad things up there.” But I knew the building was vacant, so I asked him what he meant. “Monsters,” he said. Well, this was getting creepy real quick. “Just wait,”…
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Resting Place | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 To me, the fate of this car mirrored the aging process. It sat for weeks in the same place (job, relationships) before the first parking tickets (warnings that time was running out) began to appear. Soon, the windshield was covered with legal admonishments to take immediate notice, to…
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Shapes | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 This post is being sent again due to a technical glitch. Please let me know if the email link doesn’t work. In the natural world, shapes repeat. I’m thinking of similar spirals in seashells and galaxies. Or the look-alike branching of tree canopies and river deltas. Or a…
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Looking Up | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 When the weather warms, homeless folks camp under our city’s bridges. The most popular spot is the river bridge near the 7-Eleven. Cheap coffee, nice bathrooms. So I was surprised to find a makeshift camp tucked beneath a high span miles from any conveniences. But then I…
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