Category: Landscape
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Homestead | Waterville, WA | 2012 Every old homestead has a voice. When Canadian weather pushes through gaps in walls and around collapsed roof beams, the fading structures can whistle, hum or wail. Add a veil of vapors rising from the fields and perception gets tricky. Was someone weeping in that darkened doorway?
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Spring | Wenatchee, WA | 2010 Feel the Northern Hemisphere tilting towards summer? The vernal equinox, perhaps underway as you read this, reintroduces direct sunlight to plants, animals and the pale-legged us. Juices begin to flow. We open to light and warmth. If conditions stay right, we blossom.
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Monument | Houston, TX | 2012 A tingle of pleasure comes from finding huge things hidden in plain sight. Case in point: the San Jacinto Monument near Houston. You’d think someone might have mentioned this giant obelisk — about 50 stories high — that commemorates a decisive battle in the Texas Revolution against Mexico. But…
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Poplars | East Wenatchee, WA | 2010 I’ve a recurring dream of heavily-leafed poplars undulating in a warm wind. Foliage swirls, spreads, inhales, curls to a close, expands again. Like a grand undersea creature surrendering to its universe’s flow. Now I regularly pause in real life to read the sign language of trees. Wisdom, I…
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Spotty Shade | Chelan Falls, WA | 2010 Sunlight travels 93 million miles, weathers cosmic storms and asteroid belts, then penetrates about 300 miles of ever-thickening atmosphere before the solar stream is stopped cold — boink — by a puny leaf. Thus: Shade. Shouldn’t we be awestruck?
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Winter Grove | East Wenatchee, WA | 2011 Stripped naked, the patterns and influences of our lives are revealed. How we moved, what we ate, who we loved, where we leaned-in for a closer look. Late in life, that guy we imagined as a vigorous explorer of a mysterious Earth is instead rooted and content…
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No Town | Near Rock Island, WA | 2011 More than 100 years ago planners laid down streets, alleys and key building sites for what would become the town of Columbia — at least on paper. Now this road to nowhere, veiled in spring rain or shimmery in summer heat, transports little more than grazing…
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Drifter | Baker Flats, WA | 2011 The cohesion of vapor into airy sculptures must puzzle even the smartest skywatchers. Barometric pressure, wind currents, surface tension, molecular bonds, a shade of gravity — all combine to shape cloud into everything from cotton puffs to stampeding giraffes. Sometimes, too, they blow across the sky with great…
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Land Folds | Wenatchee, WA | 2010 Walking the grooves of Burch Mountain hides its geologic ruts and ripples. Its true complexity — and the beauty of its sensual contours — appears only at a distance. I’ve noticed that happens, too, when I spy my spouse from across a bustling room. Most of the time,…
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