Tag: black and white
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Bales | Coulee City , WA | 2016 At 120 pounds each, these bales embrace gravity like a farm girl hugging a high school quarterback. Hard to wedge them apart. But I once knew a wiry little guy, basically a frame of tendons in worn jeans, who could mimic fulcrum and lever — knees, hips,…
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Night Tent | Mountain View, AR | 2016 We strolled away from the music festival, bluegrass fading as we meandered down the dark street. One last vendor tent caught bright spotlights from the staging area and fluttered in the night. Its canvas
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Cliff | Jasper, AR | 2016 There’s my brother cantilevered over the beautiful abyss — hovering on thin underpinnings that, at least for now, have my trust. In most endeavors he keeps his feet on the ground. Solid planning with budgets and schedules for family, finances and fun. It’s unsettling
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Empty Space | Fairfield Bay, AR | 2016 “According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of ‘strings’ vibrating at
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Balcony | Bull Shoals, AR | 2016 Ponder the shape of the world and you’ll discover the S-curve everywhere. Roads, rivers, staircases, noodles on a plate. One theory claims humans find the S-curve pleasing due to its balance and symmetry. Another asserts it mimics the female form, so what’s not to like? The shape is…
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Potato Sheds | Quincy, WA | 2016 “Agriculture is not crop production, as popular belief holds. It’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s lands and waters. Without agriculture, it’s not possible to
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Paddling Poodle | Stemilt Basin, WA | 2016 “Perhaps swimming was dancing under water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim
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Baby’s Breath | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Today we treat sprays of wild baby’s breath as a noxious weed. But back in the 1980s, the bushy flowering plant, which thrives in arid climates, was touted to be the next Gold Rush. Purveyors claimed they could
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Ducks | Bellevue, WA | 2016 A big city lawyer went duck hunting in rural Texas. He got one on the first shot, but it fell across the fence into a farmer’s field. As the lawyer climbed over the fence to get the duck, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor. “This is my…
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Corner Lot | Warden, WA | 2016 Shreds of dreams linger in many of Eastern Washington’s small towns. In the last few decades, a shift in rural economies — more mail order, more consolidation, more Walmarts — undercut Main Street’s mom-and-pop businesses. Once-busy stores have now been repurposed into offices, senior centers or storage spaces.…
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