Category: Still Life
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Eggs | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 A few Easter facts from History.com: “The egg, an ancient symbol of new life, has been associated with pagan festivals celebrating spring. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection.” And for you less religious, “The largest Easter egg…
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Eyeglasses | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 The origin of optics goes back 4,000 years to crystals used by ancient Egyptians to — I’m guessing — read jokes. (“Why was the Egyptian kid so confused? His daddy was his mummy.”) Today my #2 stay-put pursuit is reading, mostly news and novels, using the miracle…
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Cone | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Each day I try to accept the bounty of fallen pine cones as a wind-blown blessing, a gift from God. But those spiky bastards won’t stop littering the yard despite my slow-breath offering of gratitude and oneness. It’s clear that cosmic union only goes so far towards
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Planter | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Gardening ranks low on my personal priority list, right below colonoscopy. I never really liked the idea of weeks of watering, weeding, waiting for seedlings when I could easily travel — down the street, across the state — to appreciate flowers, fields, forests, already grown by someone…
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Red Onion | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 “In onion is strength, and a garden without it lacks flavor. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables, and it is the only one that
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Items of Interest | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 You think our days of isolation are filled with ice cream and tickle fights? No siree. We’ve purged closets and dug up treasures. Clockwise from upper left: • A 1969 copy of Spanish artist Francisco Ramo’s “Darwin’s Ape,” a high school graduation gift from my…
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Apple | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 I’m fascinated by starlight, particularly today’s photons flung from the Sun straight to the stool in our kitchen. In fact, everything rises from such solar energy — the coffee I sip, poodle paws twitching in a dream, Jimmy at the 7-Eleven, an apple in evening’s glow, the…
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First Tulip | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 One escape from disheartening headlines likely blooms in your own backyard. While all seed-born life encapsulates Mystery (a speck expands into the spectacular), flowering plants do it best. Every blossom, a puzzle of complexity, presents a working universe of colors, scents and textures. And behind this…
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Old Tumbler | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 [Good morning. I’ve restarted this blog’s daily posts for a temporary run (two weeks? a month?) during the virus crisis. I’m curious how far I can wander within the confines of home and yard. Expect lots of still-life and pooch pics.] The ordinary now catches our…
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Cigarillo | Wenatchee, WA | February 2020 From behind a tinted window, I watched the guy smoke his small cigar. He was scruffy and maybe homeless. But puffing away while sitting on a bench in the sun gave him immense pleasure. He’d blow a smoke ring, read a sentence or two from the book in…
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