Category: Landscape
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Cut Lawn | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Sam thought his beret looked best when he wore it low over his right eye. Like an artist. It also blocked the morning glare while he made east-west cuts. His technique was
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Face the Future | Seabrook, WA | 2013 Some Seattle families spend summers in Seabrook, an almost too-perfect community of vacation homes on the Washington coast. Years ago, the development’s managers installed artful plywood “cutouts” to amuse the kids. Tykes and teens put their faces in the holes and had photos snapped of their fantasy…
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Arrival | Pacific Beach, WA | 2013 A beach creek always plots the easiest route to its ultimate destination, the sea. The creek adapts to the changing landscape and remains flowing, flexible and facile despite upheaval from the latest high tide. Its effort to define a course — make a lasting mark on the world…
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Wedge of Wheat | Stratford, WA |2013 Even with the truck running, I could hear the wheat field’s whispered warning: Storm coming. First winds of a dark front, pushing in from Canada, caressed the wheat heads in a rolling wave. Stalk scraping against stalk sounded like one long continual “shush” — the crop itself telling…
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Jetting from Seattle | Twisp, WA | 2013 Look up for evidence of a wondrous world. Clouds prove water can fly, on rivers of air, constantly changing to adapt to life in the sky. What appears solid isn’t; what appears vaporous weighs tons. Clouds born at sea float on
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Waders | Soap Lake, WA | 2013 The high mineral content of Soap Lake’s healing waters attracts devotees from around the world. In particular, Ukrainians have embraced bathing in the buoyant basin. I was once walking the lake’s beach, when a Ukrainian kid with a bucket ran up and said, “I’ll mud you for five…
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Schoolhouse | Coulee City, WA | 2013 The century-old Highland School sits on the crest of a hill along Highway 2 between Waterville and Coulee City in eastern Washington. Morning light flatters it most, although strong sun tends to highlight the vandalism — graffiti, failed arson attempts, theft of windows and wall boards. More than…
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Short Pier | Pateros, WA | 2013 At first look, the half-sunken pier seemed like a bad situation. In a grand sense, it was failing to fulfill its destiny. More simply, it wasn’t being used as intended. But wait …
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Shed | Douglas, WA | 2013 At three weeks into retirement, I’ve begun to shed the veneer of career and rediscover my underlying self, a person I’d only glimpsed occasionally in the last four decades. Yes, this emerging me is
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Shapes | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 This post is being sent again due to a technical glitch. Please let me know if the email link doesn’t work. In the natural world, shapes repeat. I’m thinking of similar spirals in seashells and galaxies. Or the look-alike branching of tree canopies and river deltas. Or a…
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