Category: Landscape
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Resting Geese | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2019 The cold never hit hard this winter, and snow came late (February). Many flocks of Canada geese, mildly confused, chose to hang out here rather than sojourn south. They managed to adjust to frosty conditions, as we all did — waddling over icy patches, basking in…
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Winter Orchard | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 It’s often what’s not there that sharpens the moment. Trees without leaves means better-defined shadows. Foods without salt means
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Snow Stacks | Leavenworth, WA | March 2019 A late-season snowshoe hike looped through an eerie patch of logged forest. Each tree stump held a “ghost trunk” of hardened snow, a 4-foot-high cylinder that I’m sure told the story of
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Church | Douglas, WA | February 2019 In this picturesque hamlet on the high plateau, St. Paul’s Lutheran holds services only a few times a year. Yet the church continues to bind people together, one resident told me. Keeping the structure in
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Ice Fisher | Coulee City, WA | March 2019 What drives someone to hack a hole in a foot of ice, drop in a fishing line and perch for hours in sub-freezing temperatures? Sport? Nature? Hunger? One online columnist claims it’s an appreciation of winter itself — silence, solitude, and simplicity. Surroundings are reduced, he…
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Hillside | Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 A great emptiness rises above the crowded neighborhood. I scan the blank hill for signs of life — birds, deer, kids — but see nothing. Well, nothing but the
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Hallway to Ocean | Newport, OR | March 2019 Standing amid sagebrush, five hours from the sea, an inlander’s heart races at the mention of a trip to
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Moon | Wenatchee, WA | March 2019 Our awareness expands astronomically (quite literally) when a full moon greets us at sunrise. It reminds us of what and where we are — a blue mote in a cosmic swirl — and inspires us to think big. Even before that first sip of coffee.
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Trees | Reardan, WA | February 2019 We all need a place to grow. Some kind of fertile spot — mental, physical, spiritual — that nourishes us and helps us
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IF365 launches another year of daily photos — this time in color Friends and family will likely grow weary of me, very weary, before this new photo project ends. Beginning today (spring equinox), I will again post one photo each day for a year. I’ll even toss in an extra
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