Category: Landscape
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Tree | New Orleans, LA | 2016 “Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They preach the ancient law of life. A tree says:
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Aerial View | Above Brighton, Colorado | 2016 Mankind’s tracks become most obvious in winter. Roads, trails, sidewalks, patios — wherever snow has been cleared — look etched onto a pristine landscape. From thousands of feet up, you can easily identify
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Bales | Coulee City , WA | 2016 At 120 pounds each, these bales embrace gravity like a farm girl hugging a high school quarterback. Hard to wedge them apart. But I once knew a wiry little guy, basically a frame of tendons in worn jeans, who could mimic fulcrum and lever — knees, hips,…
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Cliff | Jasper, AR | 2016 There’s my brother cantilevered over the beautiful abyss — hovering on thin underpinnings that, at least for now, have my trust. In most endeavors he keeps his feet on the ground. Solid planning with budgets and schedules for family, finances and fun. It’s unsettling
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Potato Sheds | Quincy, WA | 2016 “Agriculture is not crop production, as popular belief holds. It’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s lands and waters. Without agriculture, it’s not possible to
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Paddling Poodle | Stemilt Basin, WA | 2016 “Perhaps swimming was dancing under water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim
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Baby’s Breath | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Today we treat sprays of wild baby’s breath as a noxious weed. But back in the 1980s, the bushy flowering plant, which thrives in arid climates, was touted to be the next Gold Rush. Purveyors claimed they could
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Modern Ruin | Lind, WA | 2016 In the early 1900s, two competing transcontinental railroads crossed routes just outside the town of Lind. Sharing tracks? Out of the question. So a long elevated bridge was built on tall stanchions that allowed one company’s trains to chug
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Stroll | Kure Beach, NC | 2016 One glorious quality of the American landscape is its vast emptiness. Yes, cities are suffocatingly crowded. Highways a knotted tangle. And popular beaches and parks a mass of humanity. But it’s easy to escape all that (really, it is) and be totally — or almost totally — alone.…
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Seven Blooms | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Flowers, those tricky devils, combine bright colors and intricate shapes to lure pollinators. Bees and other insects can’t resist participating in this brazen sex act that
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