Category: Cityscape
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Wired | Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 “Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife, despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and
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Optics | Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 “I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone’s vision to 20/20. That’s an example of
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Fence | Cashmere, WA | November 2019 This new fence teases the eye with visual contrast. But it faces every fence’s fate — fail, fall, fix. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote poet Robert Frost about the breakdown of a stone fence between him and a neighbor. I frequently witness that truth.…
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Fake Fir | East Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 Let’s imagine a telecommunications engineer making his pitch: “It’s a cell tower, sure, but who’s gonna know? This thing will fool tree experts. It’s where squirrels will hide their nuts.” Question is: Why even bother to camouflage a cell tower? They’ve become just another unnoticed element…
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Matrix | Moscow, ID | November 2019 Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing — why you hardly sleep, why you live alone and why, night after night, you sit by your computer … It’s the question that drives us, Neo. It’s the question that brought you here. You…
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Castoff Couch | Moscow, ID | November 2019 More than 40 years ago, I found a flawless print of Picasso’s “Three Musicians” leaning against a garbage can at the curb. The art didn’t interest me much, but the frame did. So I took it home with the intention of replacing the print with a favorite…
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Grain Shed | St. John, WA | November 2019 A wheat town’s skyline of grain elevators doesn’t offer many surprises. After all, function dictates form: Tall, so gravity does its job, and wide, so a gazillion grain kernels can be stored. One rarity is the turquoise structure on a hill near downtown St. John. The…
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Old Doorway | Palouse, WA | November 2019 Five days a week I walked to work through the French Quarter with Jules, an alpha-male executive who lived in the apartment above me. As I sat one evening in our building’s courtyard, Jules swept down the stairs dressed as Carol Channing, the Broadway diva. Platinum wig,…
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Red Door | St. John, WA | November 2019 “How concrete everything becomes in the world of spirit when an object — a mere door — evokes images of welcome, security, hesitation and desire. If you were to give an account of all the doors you’ve
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Pumpkin Truck | Colfax, WA | November 2019 Roadside whimsy for the pleasure of passers-by is, in my book, an act of extreme generosity. Those Sasquatch cutouts in the middle of cow pastures don’t tromp out there by themselves. Some landowner had to decide that the surrounding miles of empty highway begged for something interesting,…
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