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Category: Landscape

  • Mississippi River

    Mississippi River | West of New Orleans, LA | 2018 Sometimes we make progress by going sideways. We divert from the headlong rush to reach a goal and instead loop yonder to gather knowledge, build energy, or simply take a break. The river, powerful and unstoppable, follows the

  • Gas Pump

    Gas Pump | Calico Rock, AR | 2017 Southerners know that you clip and snip immediately or kudzu will take over your yard and life. Same with English ivy. Or weeds from the vacant lot next door. “Do the difficult things while they are

  • Flight: Shadow on Forest

    Flight: Shadow on Forest | Houston, TX | 2017 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is

  • Flight: Engine

    Flight: Engine | Over Colorado | 2017 Some people simply love the roar of jet engines and excitement of flying. “The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat, there is

  • Flight: At 30,000 Feet

    Flight: At 30,000 Feet | Over Utah | 2017 “We’ll pay extra for a hotel room with a view of the sea, or book in advance for a restaurant table with the best vista. But instead of marvelling at the kind of views once reserved only for birds, most of us

  • Ripples

    Ripples | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 We affect the world with our every action. Anger or kindness, curses or compliments, radiate outward to alter moods and experiences of the people around us. “Those with influence understand the power of relationships, connection, and engaging openly with the world,” says Kathy Caprino, writer for Forbes magazine.…

  • Dry Grass

    Dry Grass | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 The grasses on the bluff spoke to her. She could sense a kind of expression, perhaps a warning, in their tangles and swoops. Like lines in an open palm or tea leaves in a cup, the leaning stalks were telling her something. The message remained unclear, but…

  • Barn Roof

    Barn Roof | Twisp, WA | 2018 Bones show where the wind peeled back the old barn’s skin. More than a hundred years of history standing there — leaning, really — unperturbed by the creeping effects of aging. Droughts, wildfires, blizzards, hurricane-like chinooks have all taken a toll, but the barn keeps

  • Poplars

    Poplars | Palisades, WA |2017 Modern life can knock our balance askew. Family vs. work, healthy vs. harmful, real vs. digital, want vs. need. Many of us who lean toward unhealthy excess ((yeah, I’m talking about me) look to nature for

  • Stick Gun

    Stick Gun | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 She sighted down the walking stick to focus on a distant object. The crook’d staff pinpointed a future hiking destination — a saddle on a ridgetop across the Columbia River — and marked it in her mind as a distant but doable goal. Could a similar device…