Category: Portfolios
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Church | Douglas, WA | February 2019 In this picturesque hamlet on the high plateau, St. Paul’s Lutheran holds services only a few times a year. Yet the church continues to bind people together, one resident told me. Keeping the structure in
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Ice Fisher | Coulee City, WA | March 2019 What drives someone to hack a hole in a foot of ice, drop in a fishing line and perch for hours in sub-freezing temperatures? Sport? Nature? Hunger? One online columnist claims it’s an appreciation of winter itself — silence, solitude, and simplicity. Surroundings are reduced, he…
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Hillside | Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 A great emptiness rises above the crowded neighborhood. I scan the blank hill for signs of life — birds, deer, kids — but see nothing. Well, nothing but the
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Rainbow | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 It’s possible my foot creates its own weather. Cool air rising from the floor swirls with warmer currents circulating around the porous woolen sock to induce a prismatic effect that
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Sweet Chili Sauce | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 Can we taste sunlight? Is a food heated by photons from afar — 93 million miles — infused with astral flavor? Could Thai spring rolls, composed of photosynthetic conductors (lettuce leaves), feel
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Steer | Ellensburg, WA | February 2019 It’s a cold wait, and sometimes long. But when the roper cuts him from the herd, the steer is all action — a straight-line blur to outrun the lasso. Roped or not, he then trots, all perky, into the holding pen where
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Jellyfish | Newport, OR | March 2019 Aliens float among us. Boneless, gelatinous, the jellyfish undulate a foot from my face as they propel across their private universe (a plexiglass cylinder). These unearthly creatures seem to radiate color, but aren’t. Instead, their translucent bodies
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Hallway to Ocean | Newport, OR | March 2019 Standing amid sagebrush, five hours from the sea, an inlander’s heart races at the mention of a trip to
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African Violets | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 I get on my knees in the living room and peer closely at the potted plant. My gaze is lured by
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Shallot | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 A shallot sliced in half resembles the cross-section of a brain. What are its thoughts on life and
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