Category: Cityscape
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Bridge | East Wenatchee, WA | 2012 Underneath, I mentally map the bridged terrain. How would I cross if the span wasn’t there? It’s an easy lope down sage-and-grass hills. But to cross the surging river I’d need a boat or superior swim skills. On the other side, only an experienced rock climber could scale…
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Flock | East Wenatchee, WA | 2011 Sometimes when birds scatter, a few linger on the perch. They’ve a different assessment of possible danger. A grounded man can’t reach their wire. Not all shadows are hawks. During a fifth-grade fire drill, my fellow student Paul sat calmly at his desk while the rest of our…
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Stairway to Heaven | Wenatchee, WA | 2012 Nearly 200 high school graduates fidgeted in folding chairs lined on the field. Nearly 2,000 cheering friends and family members filled the stadium. But the clouds parting at the top of the stairs, so close, had my attention. The crowd noise faded to an inviting whisper, but…
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Monument | Houston, TX | 2012 A tingle of pleasure comes from finding huge things hidden in plain sight. Case in point: the San Jacinto Monument near Houston. You’d think someone might have mentioned this giant obelisk — about 50 stories high — that commemorates a decisive battle in the Texas Revolution against Mexico. But…
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White Shoes | Wenatchee, WA | 2011 On her way to an early-morning shift, the hospital nurse turned shadow lines into a hopscotch court. She leaped past darkness and frolicked through light. Not a bad way to live, if only from your car to the emergency room.
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Two Street Lights | Wenatchee, WA | 2011 Filling the truck’s tank at 7-Eleven, I stood watching an undulating sphere of pigeons circle overhead. How on earth — above earth — do they do that? Glide inches apart, turn on a dime in sync, and then scatter, power-flapping, at the hint of a hawk? At…
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Man on Street | Seattle , WA | 2010 Something catches his attention. The swivel of his head towards the unseen (for me, at least) catches my attention. The shutter clicks, and I’m aware I’ve caught a security guard’s attention. Then the strolling man pauses to glance around, as if he can feel this concentrated…
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