Category: Portfolios
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Creek | Colfax, WA | June 2019 We don’t fully appreciate the play of light until we see it frolic across a stretch of Palouse hills. Together, photons and farmscape create a world new to most of us. Shadows shift. Shapes lack edges. Colors deepen and
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Student Union | Pullman, WA | June 2019 I’ve heard college has become immensely stressful. It’s competitive, expensive and just plain hard to learn amid distractions of the digital age. Yet it’s still a privilege — isn’t it? — to spend years exploring the subject that interests you most? To become an expert on, say,…
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Cows Grazing | Dusty, WA | June 2019 Standing in a field doing nothing has to be one of life’s most underrated activities. It’s just you and the grass — and the insects, rodents, reptiles, birds, cows, breezes, sunshine and soul of the farmer who planned and planted the whole thing. All there, relaxed in…
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Darkness Ahead | Lacrosse, WA | June 2019 This ominous road sign (blacked out by work crews) stood against a landscape veiled in wildfire smoke and seared by noonday sun. It gave me pause. If God doesn’t speak in a booming voice but instead through earthly signs and symbols, then shouldn’t I take heed? Five…
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Painted Bus | Washtucna, WA | June 2019 In retirement I’m more alert to things transformed. People and objects that have found new uses — new paths, new purposes — prove that vitality lies ahead. For decades, this derelict bus (in a field at a rural intersection) has served as a
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Rodeo Rider | Coulee City, WA | May 2019 Not sure what makes a young man ease onto the back of a bronc or bull. It’s not a natural act; even cowboys should avoid bone-crushing brutes. But I like observing the get-ready routines — fitting of gloves, adjustment of ropes, setting of hat just so…
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Distance | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Layers soothe and excite. Their repetition draws us away from the immediate moment (hard work, crying kids, overdue bills) and simultaneously deepens our yearning for
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Sign at Sunset | Coulee City, WA | May 2019 When I was a kid in Louisiana, Mom would sometimes drive us 40 miles to a Holiday Inn for comforts we lacked at home. Air conditioning, swimming pool, color TV, little soaps, drinking glasses wrapped in paper. “Honey, see if you can find some ice…
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Feral Cat | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Urban Nature Series | Our neighborhood’s free-roaming felines have admirable qualities. Cleverness: They’ve trained numerous homeowners to feed them daily. Resourcefulness: They sleep in winter under the warm engines of just-parked vehicles. Hopefulness: They freeze like statues (see photo) near bird feeders to
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Marmot | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2019 Urban Nature Series | Marmots are maddening critters. Just ask our poodle, who is tortured by their warning chirps from rocky ridges. “Over here! No! Over here!” I watch our dog dash frantically back and forth, chirp to chitter, and know that could be me — with…
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