Category: Recently Observed
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Masks | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Be alert. Stay safe. [This blog’s extended run ends today, more than two years after its launch in March 2018 and two months after a relaunch as
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Canopy | Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Be thankful for protection against dark elements. Applaud street lamps, immune systems, evening prayers. Remember that the veil between bliss and bedlam remains only as strong as
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High Meadow | Entiat, WA | May 2020 A beam of sunshine on a lofty ridge highlights its wonders: A boulder pile shaped like a face, a perfect oval of forest, a field of flowers glowing yellow. Later in a taqueria, a young woman’s eyes brighten with
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Midrib | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Patterns of big to little and little to big fulfill a natural order. Leaves: Branch, stem, midrib, veins. Traffic: Freeways, state routes, county roads, driveways. Water: Springs, creeks, rivers, seas. They’re sorting maps we follow subconsciously — glacier > waterfall > stream — through most of our…
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Trash Can | Bridgeport, WA | May 2020 “When you’re smilin’ … keep on smilin’ / The whole world smiles with you / And when you’re laughin’ …
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Architecture | Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Buildings tell lies, particularly when it comes to grandiose false fronts designed to boost a structure’s “presence.” Of course, cowboy towns in the 1800s proudly strutted their flat, fake fronts. And architects in the 1990s reincarnated the practice for malls and quick-build commercial strips. This photo shows a…
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Street Turkey | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 Our new friend ignores fences, taunts dogs, gobbles gardens and struts the streets with gangsta swagger. It notes our presence with an upnod — “Yo, homie” — but otherwise keeps its beak to the ground. One neighbor says it’s a wild turkey sent to bedevil cats.…
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Turquoise Truck | Methow, WA | May 2020 Truck parked too long, weeds ‘round the wheels, crank up the motor, see how she feels / Air in the tires, gas gauge on
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Rock Piles | Mansfield, WA | May 2020 I survey the wind-downed pine cones littering our lawn and shake my head at the drudgery of raking. Just imagine tackling the removal of thousands of sofa-sized boulders from 200 acres of potential wheat field. “We’re gonna need a bigger wagon,” homesteaders must have said. Clearing a…
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Rapeseed | Mansfield, WA | May 2020 I’m no farmer (barely even a backyard gardener) but I’d like to heartily endorse rapeseed as an alternative crop for wheat on the Waterville Plateau. My enthusiasm has little to do with the crop’s usual byproducts — biofuel, cooking oil, livestock feed, soil enhancement — and more to…
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