Category: Landscape
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Beach Tracks | Pacific Beach, WA | 2018 The tire tracks come out of nowhere and head God knows where. Their direction isn’t even clear. All we know is that they’re traces of a soul determined to
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Beach | Pacific Beach, WA | 2018 Seacoast horizontals soothe the soul. They’re a salve for everyday irritants — unpaid bills, nagging boss, rude clerks. Standing at the ocean’s edge reminds us that we’re part of something
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Thistle Bloom | Winthrop, WA | 2017 “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them and instead confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you. Grasp it boldly, and
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Spider | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 Long after the seasonal disappearance of household insects — ants, flies, moths — hardy arachnids survive well into autumn and, sometimes, beyond several frosts. Every year, the spider’s determination to find water and warmth in our bathroom borders on inspirational. Set a goal, ignore distractions, plow towards accomplishment.…
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Leaves | Orondo, WA | 2017 “There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony, and there’s no better designer than
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Mooring | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 American author James Baldwin once wrote, “People can’t invent their mooring posts — their lovers and their friends — anymore than they can invent their parents.” At lake’s edge, I stood pondering my own life’s moorings — spouse, siblings, career, home — and how their rooted placements have
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14 Geese | Medical Lake, WA | 2018 “Inside calm minds, great ideas swim serenely … like
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Drifter | Chelan, WA | 2017 The solo traveler escapes the social influences that tug him out of shape. In daily life, family, friends, work, Internet, household chores and a hundred other hooks grab, pull, stretch until he sometimes doesn’t recognize himself. Alone and free, his habits, his thinking, his very soul, reconstitute into core…
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Power Line/Contrail | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 The thin line between matter and vapor — the physical and ephemeral — begs occasional acknowledgment. At the edge of sleep, we often flutter back-and-forth from one world to the next, one state of consciousness to another. In nature — atop mountains, in deep forest, gliding underwater…
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Volcanoes | Cascade Range, Washington and Oregon | 2018 Airline pilots often point out America’s wonders: the Rockies, the Grand Canyon, the Great Salt Lake, the Mississippi River. On a recent flight, the captain suggested we take a peek at some peaks — a line of volcanoes comprising the central Cascade Range. I think that’s
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