Category: Landscape
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Plane Shadow | Salt Lake City, UT | 2016 I look out the plane window and sometimes can’t believe we’re flying. Of all our technological achievements — television, satellites, touch screens, intermittent windshield wipers — human flight seems the most
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Ominous | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 Every so often I can sense the day teetering on the cusp of change. You know that feeling, right? Dogs are restless, people are edgy, clouds scud low. Something is about to happen, but I don’t know what. Usually it’s just a sudden shift in weather — downpour,…
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River Glow | Vantage, WA | 2016 It’s not mystical. The glow from the bottom of the Columbia River is a trick of light — reflection off a sandy bottom or an underwater cliff angled just right. But I’ve visited this spot in all seasons, and even on cloudy days there’s an intriguing
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Weather Ahead | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 “I could never resist the call of the trail.” — Scout, bison hunter and showman Buffalo Bill (d. 1917)
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Furrows | Badger Mountain, WA | 2015 “Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other
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Weeds Caught in Fence | Twisp, WA | 2015 We’ve come to know there’s order in almost every jumbled mess. Debris fields from tornadoes. Flows of people in massive crowds. Dirty laundry scattered in a teenager’s room. They all display an overriding pattern that — when you pull back far enough — shows evidence of
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Evening Trees | Fairfield Bay, AR | 2015 Part of what makes travel worthwhile are shared moments of awe, joy, frustration or daring. Well, sort of. My brother and I travel together regularly and have compiled a storehouse of less-than-spectacular but immensely satisfying memories. In particular:
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Club House | Malott, WA | 2015 Decades ago, residents in the small community of Malott boosted their communal dream with a solid, four-walled prompt to make their town better. Headquarters of the Malott Improvement Club still sits not far from the post office. It’s like an
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Shaped | Seabrook, WA | 2015 The winds of culture help shape us, but each person grows in his or her own way — sometimes in surprising ways. In my youth, nuns poked me towards the priesthood, but early on I discovered a love of science (and girls). Later I realized it wasn’t really science…
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Trek | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 A favorite novelist, Mark Helprin, once had a hero declare that a credit card, knapsack and good shoes are all that’s needed to seek adventure. Especially the shoes. You step out the door and start walking. Each step brings you closer to the intersection of
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