Category: Landscape
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Restroom | Twisp, WA | 2017 One of life’s great gifts is the unexpected bathroom. I speak of ones hidden amid the urban maze or installed miles into what we all thought was wilderness. The ones for which some sympathetic soul — a highway engineer or Forest Service ranger — decided that
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Path | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 A decade ago this path was little more than a deer track weaving through grass and brush. But deer are efficient creatures; they know the shortest route between two points. So the animal trail was soon discovered by
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Reeds in Sand | Moses Lake, WA | 2018 A clump of reeds at the lake’s edge had seen better days. Declining water levels had left the grassy collective high and dry. Beached boats had mashed and broken thousands of stalks. Kids had dug holes and exposed roots. Yet healthy reeds grew tall at
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Goose | Little Rock, AR | 2018 “The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the wild goose. And the reason why is
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Beach Week: Moon | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 My attempts to fathom tidal mysteries have done little more than clog my brain. Concepts such as gravitational fields, force differentials, prograde orbits, and the inverse square law reduce me to mumbling: “Moon bright, moon pretty.” At the beach, I feel a responsibility to understand the…
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Beach Week: Bike | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 The bicyclist follows the high-water line. He lays a winding track where waves rush up and reach out for solid ground. He traces the ever-changing boundary between disparate worlds of water and air. Where else in life would we traverse such
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Beach Week: Strolling Couple | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 The world falls away at the beach. The short walk from hotel to shoreline transports visitors to a greater universe — where human arrogance pales amid
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Beach Week: Six Gulls | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 “As I watched the seagulls, I thought: ‘That’s the road to take. Find the
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Beach Week: Evening | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 “Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from our obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to
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Beach Week: Midday | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 “Shadow lies between light and darkness. It may be infinitely diminished or infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies
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