Category: Portfolios
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Six Spoons | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 The beauty of table utensils — forks, knives and spoons —comes from simple design aimed at maximum usefulness. The spoon, for instance, is basically a scoop to transport liquids from bowl to mouth. Works perfectly every time. No digital enhancement needed. I once attended a fancy banquet…
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Avocado Quartered | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 Decades ago in the Florida Everglades, we had expected to see crocodiles — they were resting under a boardwalk that zig-zagged through the swamp — but slicing open the best avocado in the world was a complete surprise. We’d worked up an appetite as croc hunters, so…
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Chimney | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 A gray-haired senior citizen can use a smartphone to photograph almost anything — airports, refineries, military bases — and few people take notice. But put a real camera (DSLR) in that elder’s hands, and security is there
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Zen | Moses Lake, WA | 2015 The patterns of our lives are often hard to recognize. Repeated behaviors — habits good and bad — become fuzzy amid the bustle of daily activity. Too much food. Too much gossip. Too much smartphone. Too little exercise. We can go weeks before realizing
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Nap | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 He surrendered first to the library’s dimness. He then sank into the chair’s comfort, the room’s hush, and in seconds had made the leap to elsewhere. I witnessed him leaving here on a dream to
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Street Light | Wenatchee, WA | 2015 Sometimes we can’t see how to get past an impediment. It blocks our way and keeps us from moving forward. So we back up and smack into it again. And again. And … well, we smack it until
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Pole with House | Badger Mountain, WA | 2015 Our arid landscape in Central Washington has vast areas of treeless terrain and unbroken sky. The natural emptiness means that man-made verticals — flagpoles, grain silos and power poles — are often scorned as visual blights. I’ve come to appreciate them, however, as welcome elements that
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Bowl | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 “We don’t need a melting pot in this country — we need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in
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Grove | Moses Lake, WA | 2015 Each of us grows in our own way, in our own direction. We might stretch toward the spotlight for acclaim and accomplishment. Or we might find soulful success in solitude and silence. Some would argue that
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