Category: Portfolios
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Fatigue | Wenatchee, WA | January 2020 Too many holiday parties. Too much food. Waaaay too much needless TV (bowl games, Hallmark movies). A week into the new year and I’m still jangled — make that jingle-jangled — from all the nonstop “peace” and “joy.” For Epiphany (today), I’m hoping the Magi bring frankincense, myrrh…
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Tufted Upholstery | Airway Heights, WA | December 2019 “If you’re a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their hearts and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a
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Two | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 As a devoted ground mammal, I struggle to imagine life in the air. And it’s not just because I’m queasy about heights. The notion of going from Point A to Point B without navigating around trees, buildings and mountains — to fly — gives wing to a…
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Engines | Trinidad, WA | December 2019 Two locomotives rest on a sidetrack in the middle of nowhere. Immense power that could go either way — backwards to reconnect with burdensome freight or forward, fast and free. Me? I relish the sidetrack of retirement but must soon choose
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Canopy | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Here we are in the dead of winter — wet, chilled, gloomy — yet my spirits lift when I stroll under a “capillary canopy.” It’s a leafless, trunk-to-twig spread that startles in its resemblance to the human circulatory system. Specifically, heart arteries silhouetted against an overcast sky,…
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Ambrosia | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 An apple’s stem connects the one to the whole. The woody conduit channels life until the moment the fruit is plucked. Likewise, we’re also connected to something larger — God, the Tao, the Great Mystery — but tend to forget that notion when burdened by everyday concerns.…
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See-through Fireplace | Spokane, WA | December 2019 Explanations of how fire works never do it justice. A flame’s chemistry is like a magic trick, being a series of mundane steps that add up to something wondrous. In fact, knowing the elements of combustion — fuel, oxygen, ignition point, volatile gases, char and ash —…
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White Chair | Spokane, WA | December 2019 I’ve learned not to judge people or furniture at first glance. They’re likely more comfortable than they look. Take this chair, for instance. To me, it appears stiff and formal — the kind of chair that actually discourages lounging. But my butt, all smiles, found a soft,…
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Blinds | East Wenatchee, WA | December 2019 Forgive me for donning my Mr. Know-It-All suit so early in the morning. But this single photo (“Blinds”) answers my blog followers’ most frequently asked question: “Christ almighty, you call yourself a photographer?” No, that’s the second most-asked question. The first is: “How do you see your…
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3 Windows | Moses Lake, WA | December 2019 Moses Lake’s tallest downtown building is likely no more than three stories high. The city core has a low-rise architecture with a boxy charm all its own. Specifically: creative variations on rectangular, cinder-block buildings — faux fronts (brick, metal, glass), distinctive landscaping (dryland grasses, basalt spires)…
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