Category: Recently Observed
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Liftoff | Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 What’s alive in our lives — dog, horse, friends, family, each other — expanded years ago to include a surprise addition: Canada geese. They honk in the sky; they poop on the ground; they strut on our periphery, a presence just out of reach. Located along their Pacific…
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Garlic Bulb | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 Cutting crosswise through most things — vegetables, firewood, personal problems — reveals unknown details which clarify structure. The rare enlightened soul encourages this process. “I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually
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Sea Life X-rays | Seattle, WA | October 2019 The tiny ad in the back of comic books promised the x-ray glasses could see through clothes. I ordered a pair for $1.99. “Give ’em a try, honey, but you might be disappointed,” said my Mom. “Naked people can be a letdown.” Months went by before…
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Lab Desk | Seattle, WA | October 2019 A priest once told me that what’s on a desk reveals what’s in the soul. His desk was crowded with Brazilian statues of a tortured Christ — nails piercing hands, thorns spiking eyeballs, guts spilling from the spear wound. Years later, another supervisor had a display of…
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Sofa | Seattle, WA | October 2019 Reverie | To replay my last dream, I sit on the sofa. It relaxes me into a meditative state where I can control the dream’s flow — rewind, freeze frame — to better interpret the message. All I see for many minutes is an undulating sea, ocean swells…
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Beaks & Bills | Seattle, WA | October 2019 The bird mouths in this photo don’t belong to finches, but Charles Darwin’s principle of natural selection still applies. “Darwin wondered about the changes in the shape of bird beaks from [Galapagos] island to island,” writes William J. Cromie in The Harvard Gazette. “So-called cactus finches…
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Window | Seattle, WA | October 2019 This view of Lake Union through a weather-etched pane had a painterly look that got me thinking. Don’t we each see the world through a set of personal filters? For instance, anger can blind us to the better qualities of those we berate. And strong positive emotions —…
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Stanchions | Badger Mountain, WA | October 2019 They’re seemingly everywhere in Eastern Washington. Stanchions and the electric lines that connect them stretch across some of the region’s most dramatic vistas. I cursed them at first for slicing through my landscape photos, but soon realized they are landscape. Or, at least, a major element of…
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Signs | Twisp, WA | October 2019 You’ve already made up your mind; you just haven’t admitted it to yourself. The signs you’ve sought from God, the Universe or palm reader Madame Mystic will likely affirm what you already know. That anti-smoking billboard with the cancer-eaten face means, yes, you should toss the cigarettes. A…
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Houses | East Wenatchee, WA | October 2019 A neighborhood can emerge as an abstract mix of light and shadows, angles and planes, people and personalities. You know: A jumble of quiet, noise, laughter, anger, buddies and jerks. Those many pieces seem to mesh best when connected by the amiable qualities of empathy and forgiveness.…
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