Category: Portfolios
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Porcelain | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Our local museum packs room after room with beautiful art and artifacts. So it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that curators there also consider the building’s restrooms as
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Bur | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 I found myself mesmerized yesterday by a veteran plumber who replaced our hot water tank. He had tools, knowledge and muscle memory to quickly detach pipes and wires — a dance of mastery — and reattach them to the newly installed tank. His skills were a good example…
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Resting Place | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 To me, the fate of this car mirrored the aging process. It sat for weeks in the same place (job, relationships) before the first parking tickets (warnings that time was running out) began to appear. Soon, the windshield was covered with legal admonishments to take immediate notice, to…
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Shapes | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 This post is being sent again due to a technical glitch. Please let me know if the email link doesn’t work. In the natural world, shapes repeat. I’m thinking of similar spirals in seashells and galaxies. Or the look-alike branching of tree canopies and river deltas. Or a…
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Looking Up | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 When the weather warms, homeless folks camp under our city’s bridges. The most popular spot is the river bridge near the 7-Eleven. Cheap coffee, nice bathrooms. So I was surprised to find a makeshift camp tucked beneath a high span miles from any conveniences. But then I…
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Markers | Waterville, WA | 2013 Each spring, Ben trimmed snow-matted grass from around the tombstones. He personally knew just about everyone who’d died in the last 30 years, could point to their resting spots and recount the highlights of their lives. Ben insisted the lawn grew greener, thicker around grave markers of “good” people,…
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Bag Handles | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Art often emerges from unexpected places. Take the plastic grocery sack, for instance. It’s common, useful and, in many ways, artfully pliable. Years ago at a local grocery, one “bag boy” — actually a retired gentleman with an appreciation for whimsy — shaped sack handles to mimic…
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Fenced | Ellensburg, WA | 2013 Everyday we discover new fences, our own barriers to thinking, creating, moving towards something new and better. We likely build many of these fences ourselves. You know, those sturdy, even pretty fences that keep us safe and secure. We’re reluctant to tear them down or even pry off a…
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Survivor | Bridgeport, WA | 2012 A few years ago wildfire scorched much of Dyer Hill, a place I never knew existed until it was burning. Driving later through the area, where charred trees still smoked, I noticed a half dozen old homesteads untouched by the flames. Back in the 1930s and ‘40s, owners had…
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Basalt Cliff | Electric City, WA | 2013 Around 5 million years ago, heated basalt oozed repeatedly through cracks in the Columbia Basin’s surface. The flows spread and cooled, forming a vast, rolling volcanic plain. The basalt hardened into six-sided columns that continue even now to tumble, crumble and shed pieces. Highway 155 between Coulee…
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