Category: Home Work
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Red Onion | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 “In onion is strength, and a garden without it lacks flavor. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables, and it is the only one that
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Items of Interest | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 You think our days of isolation are filled with ice cream and tickle fights? No siree. We’ve purged closets and dug up treasures. Clockwise from upper left: • A 1969 copy of Spanish artist Francisco Ramo’s “Darwin’s Ape,” a high school graduation gift from my…
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Apple | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 I’m fascinated by starlight, particularly today’s photons flung from the Sun straight to the stool in our kitchen. In fact, everything rises from such solar energy — the coffee I sip, poodle paws twitching in a dream, Jimmy at the 7-Eleven, an apple in evening’s glow, the…
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First Tulip | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 One escape from disheartening headlines likely blooms in your own backyard. While all seed-born life encapsulates Mystery (a speck expands into the spectacular), flowering plants do it best. Every blossom, a puzzle of complexity, presents a working universe of colors, scents and textures. And behind this…
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Old Tumbler | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 [Good morning. I’ve restarted this blog’s daily posts for a temporary run (two weeks? a month?) during the virus crisis. I’m curious how far I can wander within the confines of home and yard. Expect lots of still-life and pooch pics.] The ordinary now catches our…
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Chandelier | Entiat, WA | February 2020 “Grab me, kiss me, waltz me, and love me / I adore thee, cherish thee, absolutely love thee / Come let’s take to the floor ‘neath a chandelier of
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Flower | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2020 I’ll spare you the flora innuendo (“Is that a sticky pistil?”) and instead marvel at the complex beauty of blooms. To me, not even 130 million years of evolution explains the countless variations — artful curves and colors — of the flower world. Each bloom is a…
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Mirror | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 This mirror on the wall reminds me daily that what we see depends on where we stand. A shift of angle can present a whole new picture. It reinforces the necessity to walk around an issue, a problem, a desire before we act, which includes
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Garlic Stalk | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Aftermath is often an unappreciated condition. It can be as alluring or heartrending as the original object or event. I’m thinking of a field of untouched snow etched an hour later by hundreds of ski tracks. Or the stark, horrible beauty of a burned forest. Or…
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Pistachios | East Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Snacking on pistachios offers rewards not found in most other naturally-encased foods. It takes just two seconds to pry open a pistachio shell with your fingers and pop the nut in your mouth. Compare that to the dynamite needed to dent a walnut. Or the jackhammer required…
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