Category: Portfolios
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Soup | East Wenatchee, WA | 2012 TV’s angry chefs, agents of stress and struggle, often ignore the great cooks’ key ingredient: Love. Take soup, for instance. Love your chicken stock, vegetables, spices and meats. Chop, stir and simmer with respect and presence. Deeply appreciate the magical mix of flavors and aromas. Be grateful to…
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Hush | Lake Wenatchee, WA | 2012 Wind whistles, rivers rush, footsteps fall with a stomp or scrape. Movement in nature rarely happens without producing sound. Yet we can stand deep in a forest and witness trillions of snowflakes, hundreds of tons of frozen water, succumb to gravity with barely a whisper — no, make…
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Winter Trailer | Twisp, WA | 2013 William died a few years ago, but his trailer stands resolute through the seasons. It looks small from the crest of a nearby hill — too tiny to house such a big-hearted guy — and mice and birds have likely moved in. But William’s presence lingers even as…
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White Shed | Moses Lake, WA | 2013 Poplars bring straight-up relief to the Columbia Basin’s recumbent landscape. Thousands of the limber trees have been planted as windbreaks, but Basin travelers most appreciate them as skybreaks — foreground high rises against a backdrop of billowing clouds.
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Tough Guy | Okanogan, WA | 2012 When I was 10, we had a rogue rooster who for weeks dive-bombed us from a pine tree every time we stepped outside. Each morning before school we’d make a mad dash to the car to avoid his sharp claws and lightning-fast beak. One day, Dad shot him…
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Wiring | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 A tech-heavy agency requiring miles of new wiring moved into an upstairs office space. For weeks we heard the whir-whir of cable being pulled through conduit — then silence. We tiptoed up the back stairs to find connector cords splayed like neural innards. My co-worker picked up a strand.…
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Scrunchie | Twisp, WA | 2013 Hair care is loaded with cheap, simple inventions that affect millions of lives. What’s more basic than a comb or bobby pin? And though more complicated, scrunchies wield great power as holders of hair for when women spring into action. Tying back locks to ensure clear vision and reduce…
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Rural Mailbox | Twisp, WA | 2012 What’s more utterly fantastic than a lone mailbox at the intersection of two gravel roads in the middle of nowhere? It’s a portal to exotic places and a receiver of valuable information. Millions of people use mailboxes to channel emotions — anger, happiness, affection — straight into the…
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Swaybacked | Badger Mountain, WA | 2011 Visual evidence of the weight of time is everywhere: eroded mountains, fallen trees, lined faces. But you can’t beat isolated farm roads for what I call scenic dilapidation, the sad but joyous consumption of once vital structures by Mother Nature. We can often see our aging selves in…
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Time Line | Belfast, ME | 2011 In 1962, Alice babysat us kids, cleaned house and did laundry. I remember watching her one afternoon as she gathered billowing white sheets from the backyard clothesline. Wasps from a nearby nest flew in a frenzy around her. She’d unpin a corner and then swat frantically as they…
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