Category: Portfolios
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After Class | Twisp, WA | 2012 Signs of life linger after everyone’s left. A whiff of perfume, a wet ring from a cold glass, the angle of a chair hurriedly abandoned. Sometimes the room retains a palpable impression — a vibrant personality or strident attitude not quite ready to depart.
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Homestead | Waterville, WA | 2012 Every old homestead has a voice. When Canadian weather pushes through gaps in walls and around collapsed roof beams, the fading structures can whistle, hum or wail. Add a veil of vapors rising from the fields and perception gets tricky. Was someone weeping in that darkened doorway?
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Stairway to Heaven | Wenatchee, WA | 2012 Nearly 200 high school graduates fidgeted in folding chairs lined on the field. Nearly 2,000 cheering friends and family members filled the stadium. But the clouds parting at the top of the stairs, so close, had my attention. The crowd noise faded to an inviting whisper, but…
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Spring | Wenatchee, WA | 2010 Feel the Northern Hemisphere tilting towards summer? The vernal equinox, perhaps underway as you read this, reintroduces direct sunlight to plants, animals and the pale-legged us. Juices begin to flow. We open to light and warmth. If conditions stay right, we blossom.
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Monument | Houston, TX | 2012 A tingle of pleasure comes from finding huge things hidden in plain sight. Case in point: the San Jacinto Monument near Houston. You’d think someone might have mentioned this giant obelisk — about 50 stories high — that commemorates a decisive battle in the Texas Revolution against Mexico. But…
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White Shoes | Wenatchee, WA | 2011 On her way to an early-morning shift, the hospital nurse turned shadow lines into a hopscotch court. She leaped past darkness and frolicked through light. Not a bad way to live, if only from your car to the emergency room.
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Poplars | East Wenatchee, WA | 2010 I’ve a recurring dream of heavily-leafed poplars undulating in a warm wind. Foliage swirls, spreads, inhales, curls to a close, expands again. Like a grand undersea creature surrendering to its universe’s flow. Now I regularly pause in real life to read the sign language of trees. Wisdom, I…
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Spotty Shade | Chelan Falls, WA | 2010 Sunlight travels 93 million miles, weathers cosmic storms and asteroid belts, then penetrates about 300 miles of ever-thickening atmosphere before the solar stream is stopped cold — boink — by a puny leaf. Thus: Shade. Shouldn’t we be awestruck?
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Winter Grove | East Wenatchee, WA | 2011 Stripped naked, the patterns and influences of our lives are revealed. How we moved, what we ate, who we loved, where we leaned-in for a closer look. Late in life, that guy we imagined as a vigorous explorer of a mysterious Earth is instead rooted and content…
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