Category: Landscape
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Crepe Myrtle at Dawn | Houston, TX | July 2019 The unveiling of the day has become a favorite spectacle. Not so much the gradual lightening of the landscape, but rather the first splashes of sunlight on objects placed just so. Mailbox, fence edge, tree trunks brighten with photons that traveled 93 million miles to
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Airplane View #3 | Heber City, UT | July 2019 From the air, this city looks otherworldly. Like a science-fiction settlement on Mars. It illustrates a key disadvantage of the window seat — interesting places slowly float below with no way to immediately reach them. They may have answers to the Great Mysteries or the…
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Airplane View #1 | Salt Lake City, UT | July 2019 Distance gives me clarity. Where I go, what I do, how I eat — it all becomes more clear when I’m 2,000 miles from home. Surprising patterns emerge: At home I wake too early, snack too often, socialize too infrequently. Ruts and routines that…
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Dark Ridge | Wenatchee, WA | June 2019 Worries can build quickly, loom menacingly, frighten thoroughly, and dissipate instantly. When trouble clears, we of course assess the damage. But we might also wonder
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Homestead | Odessa, WA | June 2019 Each abandoned homestead is a face of farming from the early 20th century. You can read the family’s struggles in the house’s sagging lines and worn facade. But while decades of harsh weather and hit-or-miss incomes took a toll, the structure still
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Vineyard | Benton City, WA | June 2019 I’m always curious when wine lovers specify the tastes bursting from a single sip. Fruit flavors make sense, of course. But cedar bark? Wet gravel? When and how would your tastebuds experience musty cardboard? It seems unlikely that four friends sharing a bottle could nod in agreement:…
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Traffic Control | Schrag, WA | June 2019 Far from town, in the middle of nowhere, I slow and then stop at the intersection, look both ways and proceed cautiously. I’m driving the only vehicle to pass here in (I’m guessing) at least two days. But a life of social conditioning — obey authority —…
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Grain Elevator | Eltopia, WA | June 2019 Up in the air. Head in the clouds. Sky’s the limit. Ways to describe our boundless potential seem … well, boundless. What I’ve found, however, is that our most comfortable position is more down-to-earth with both feet on the ground. That stance provides
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Bug | East Wenatchee, WA | June 2019 If humans are wondrous, shouldn’t fleas, ants and other tiny bugs be even more so? In their itsy-bitsy bodies are packed brains, hearts, guts, eyeballs and, most remarkably, survival instincts. Or maybe not. One theory speculates that teensy creatures are the coalesced nerve endings of a larger…
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