Category: Cityscape
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Exhibit | Seattle, WA | January 2020 Life tilts in new directions every time I view art. In books, on walls, across screens — art from inspired minds helps me see differently and reinterpret the world. Yeah, I know that’s what it’s supposed to do. But these days so many claims never pay off. You…
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Derelict School | Soap Lake, WA | January 2020 City, county and school officials have argued for years that something needs to be done about this abandoned building. Asbestos, rodents, drug needles, homeless encampments — the place has its problems, that’s for sure. But the old Delancey-Houghton Elementary School is also one of the town’s…
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Eyes | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that
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Mo(u)rning Dove | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Sun on clouds, dove on wire, poop on car — a chain of events that slid quickly from grand to groan. That’s because one vestige of birds’ dinosaur lineage is that they don’t pee. Instead, they squirt a nitrogenous paste that sticks like glue to windshields…
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Windowsill | Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 The alleyways that lace downtown are portals to another time. Century-old buildings, ad murals from the 1930’s, loading docks unused for decades, windows draped since World War II. These old-time elements lubricate the imagination so we can easily envision the commercial bustle of a pre-electronic age. You know:…
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Lamp | Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 One of life’s true luxuries — along with an unplanned day and, oh yeah, a good ice scraper — is a comfortable place to read. It’s the first thing I look for in expensive showplace homes. Not hardwood floors, not granite countertops, not jetted soaking tubs, but an…
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Fatigue | Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Too many holiday parties. Too much food. Waaaay too much needless TV (bowl games, Hallmark movies). A week into the new year and I’m still jangled — make that jingle-jangled — from all the nonstop “peace” and “joy.” For Epiphany (today), I’m hoping the Magi bring frankincense, myrrh…
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Tufted Upholstery | Airway Heights, WA | December 2019 “If you’re a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their hearts and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a
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Canopy | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Here we are in the dead of winter — wet, chilled, gloomy — yet my spirits lift when I stroll under a “capillary canopy.” It’s a leafless, trunk-to-twig spread that startles in its resemblance to the human circulatory system. Specifically, heart arteries silhouetted against an overcast sky,…
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See-through Fireplace | Spokane, WA | December 2019 Explanations of how fire works never do it justice. A flame’s chemistry is like a magic trick, being a series of mundane steps that add up to something wondrous. In fact, knowing the elements of combustion — fuel, oxygen, ignition point, volatile gases, char and ash —…
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