Category: Landscape
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Singularity | Walla Walla, WA | 2017 Many faiths teach that we are All One, but I’m not so sure. My experience has been that we are all very separate from each other and only occasionally — rarely, in fact — make deep and meaningful connections with fellow human beings. Many of us, however, do…
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Biking Dune | Trinidad, WA | 2017 The kid couldn’t have been more than 12 years old, yet he was a master of mountain biking. He tirelessly pedaled, braked, sledded and soared on the dune, clearly intent on etching his presence across every patch of sand. I wanted to ask him why, but he
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Cloud Study # 4 | Badger Mountain, WA | 2017 “Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It’s geometrically perfect. It’s tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in
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Winter Poplars | Palisades, WA | 2017 “Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph,
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3 Horses | Moses Lake, WA | 2017 “The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with
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Rural Skyline | Waterville, WA | 2017 Heading west, the first signs of town are the grain elevators. The lights on top ward off crop dusters but are also welcome beacons to weary travelers trying to beat a winter storm. Night falls at 4:30 pm, so lights blaze, too, at main street’s essentials — library,…
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Turbines | Ellensburg, WA | 2017 Geez, it’s friggin’ freezing on the patio of the visitors center of the Wild Horse Wind Farm. The west wind streams relentlessly — 20 mph? 30 mph? — to give in-your-face meaning to “current of air.” It just won’t let up. A giant arctic parka braced at the railing…
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Winter Farm | Waterville, WA | 2016 “A good friend insists that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered. After some time, they then thaw and
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Winter Tree | Pateros, WA | 2016 “Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around their trunks. And their roots
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