Category: Landscape
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Winter Golf | Twisp, WA | February 2020 Soccer teams play on muddy fields. Runners dash through rainstorms. Bicyclists pedal on sheets of ice. But golfers seem to brave more inclement weather than almost any other sports enthusiasts. They’re on the links in downpours, blizzards, 15-degree cold snaps, 100-degree heat waves and even wind conditions…
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Old Car | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2020 “When you drive home today, notice that you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. The reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because
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Static Dissipators | Orondo, WA | February 2020 I’ve mentioned before how helpful static dissipators would be in tense social situations. One atop my baseball cap (careful, don’t poke out an eye) could defuse anger when I cut in line at the grocery store or steal a parking space from a big-tire truck guy. Any…
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Jet | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2020 Jet contrails seem delicate, beautiful, magical — always worth an upward gaze. Crazy theories that they distribute chemicals to seed storms or nano-bots to rewire brains only add to their mystique. But does every jet leave a trail? Why do some plumes linger longer? More importantly, what’s…
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Fog | Quincy, WA | January 2020 Fog is always mysterious, but standing in heavy mist swirled by an unfelt breeze is even more unsettling. You can see the air. It flows in currents like water, rising and falling, circling back in eddies caused by trees, boulders, me. With my back to the wind, I…
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Storm Watcher | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | Rogue waves can happen, say the posted warning signs, especially during incoming tides. But this guy hopscotched from sand patch to sand patch so he could stand amid surf and get the full effect of an approaching storm. Thankfully, odds were in his…
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Sand in Shell | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | At the beach, sand infiltrates crevices I’d hoped were sand-proof. Yesterday I found an abundance of it in my ears (despite a knit cap) and between my toes (laced into snow boots). What the hell? A similar kind of irritant also works…
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Storm Erosion | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | A stormy beach offers good lessons in change and impermanence. The sand is like an Etch-A-Sketch, drawn and redrawn by the onslaught of wind, rain, surf and tides. What we embrace one day — a winding creek, giant cedar logs, great swirls of…
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Storm Break | Pacific Beach, WA | January 2020 Sea Visit | Yipes! This is the non-stop wind and wet we’ve always heard the Pacific Coast can deliver. Multiple storm fronts have hit in the last three days — hurricane-force winds, sideways downpours, darkened skies, twilight at noon. Beachcombers in big pickup trucks drive the…
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