Category: Home Work
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Blinds | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Forgive me for donning my Mr. Know-It-All suit so early in the morning. But this single photo (“Blinds”) answers my blog followers’ most frequently asked question: “Christ almighty, you call yourself a photographer?” No, that’s the second most-asked question. The first is: “How do you see your…
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Buttered Baking Pan | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Things Ignored by Famous Photographers #2 | There’s joy in finger-smearing soft butter over sheet metal. No one in my lifetime has ever mentioned how satisfying it can be. Scooping, dabbing, coating — actions that grease the pan, sure, but also lubricate creativity. My abstract…
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Spares | Twisp, WA | November 2019 Comfort comes in many forms. But life’s pressures ease when we’re prepared for the unexpected. A flashlight within easy reach. A spare tire fully inflated. An extra six-pack on game day. I like to draw a mental map (not paper) of household emergency items and their locations. The…
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Vacant | East Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 The room seemed empty until I began to note its less tangible elements. Air, light, dust, smells of dinner cooking downstairs, a memory of my deceased father in a similar room talking about the shape of boat hulls. A quantum space-time moment, perhaps? “According to string theory,”…
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Garlic Bulb | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 Cutting crosswise through most things — vegetables, firewood, personal problems — reveals unknown details which clarify structure. The rare enlightened soul encourages this process. “I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually
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Roasted Veggies | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 One of cooking’s many delights is the near-magical transformation of the food itself. It could be the closest we come to alchemy and its search for elixirs to enrich and extend human life. For example, roasting caramelizes the sugars in plant fibers to sweeten even the…
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Petal | East Wenatchee, WA | September 2019 Flora #3 | Back in fifth grade, the first guy at our school to ever own an electric guitar became very popular. For two days I followed him around because, well, only rock stars had electric guitars. But then Katherine, the most beautiful and mature girl in…
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Pear on Stone | East Wenatchee, WA | August 2019 A skyscraper stuns in design and complexity, but so does a garden gazebo. A 20-ingredient stew bursts with flavor, but so does trout sautéed in butter. Jackson Pollock’s complex art mesmerizes, but so does a Chinese painting of one blade of grass. An object’s shape…
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Ice | Twisp, WA | August 2019 I grew up in south Louisiana certain that ice should be the main ingredient in any glass of sweet tea or Coca-Cola. The heat, humidity and conversational habits demanded we sip something cold — icy cold — while we sat in the shade to analyze the latest Saints…
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Yellow Jacket | Twisp, WA | August 2019 We often face barriers that keep us from favorite activities, work goals or even survival needs. We can break down these challenges and tackle each small piece step-by-step. Or, as this insect decided, we can scout a new route around the obstacle. The yellow jacket wisely abandoned…
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