Category: Landscape
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Beach Week: Morning | Pacific Beach, WA | 2017 “The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should
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Low Hill | Toppenish, WA | 2018 My few minutes of pondering this stark landscape was interrupted by a huge trailer truck squeezing onto the gravel shoulder next to my car. The driver, a small man with a big belly, climbed down from the cab carrying a bag of Chips Ahoy cookies. “Want one?” he…
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Smoke | Entiat, WA | 2017 We’ve been robbed of prime-time summer these last few years. Wildfires here and beyond have smothered our perfect weather (August-September) under a blanket of smoke. Sadly, it’s curtailed much outdoor recreation. Residents blame climate change, forest mismanagement, increased lightning, and crazy people
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Morning Walk | Cashmere, WA | 2017 “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others. For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness. And for poise, walk with
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Road | Waterville, WA | 2017 A man I hardly knew picked me up at 5 a.m. to go cut a Christmas tree. In the freezing dark, we drove into the mountains in a rattletrap four-wheel-drive pickup truck. The back was filled with fresh-cut firewood, so he’d lashed his chainsaw and two shovels to the…
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Pole | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 Every pole has a story. Across the rural West, thousands of lone, isolated poles — fence posts to power poles — stand as mute sentinels to … well, who knows what? Each one’s worldly purpose ranges (I’m guessing) from
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Glide | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 There’s a way, I think, to move through life with minimum struggle and maximum ease. At age 65, I still haven’t learned exactly how it’s done, but I’m getting close. The method emerges from acceptance and gratitude for what’s right in front of me. Sunlight, tennis shoes, bird…
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Evergreen | Wenatchee, WA | 2018 Trees in a woodlot near our college grow thin and spindly due to overcrowding and competition. Across the street, a huge evergreen stands alone on campus and
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3 Trees | Twisp, WA | 2018 Summer 2018 will be remembered in North Central Washington as a season lost in smoke. An arc of lightning-caused wildfires shrouded many areas — including Twisp, Mazama, Omak, Wenatchee and other towns — under a smothering blanket of … >cough< … airborne particulates. Many residents sought a more
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