Tag: Washington
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Escarpment | Spanish Castle, WA | November 2019 Winemakers say that a vineyard at the base of a cliff (in photo) has distinguishing qualities. Such as: Unique mineral pockets, a channeled air flow, cooler temps due to shade, warmer temps due to reflected sunlight. If a grape’s essence is enriched by such a micro-climate, imagine…
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Vacant | East Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 The room seemed empty until I began to note its less tangible elements. Air, light, dust, smells of dinner cooking downstairs, a memory of my deceased father in a similar room talking about the shape of boat hulls. A quantum space-time moment, perhaps? “According to string theory,”…
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Cones | Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 The man flagged me down in the parking lot and said, “Hey, there were cones back there! Didn’t you see the cones?” Yes, I saw the cones. I ignored them because they weren’t doing any of their regular cone jobs — to warn, to guide, to delineate. They…
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Self-portrait | Badger Mountain, WA | October 2019 I’m part of all my photos even if they lack my silhouette. I’ve learned that taking a picture doesn’t steal a subject’s soul, as some believe, but rather injects a piece of my own. Shutter clicked; essence sent. Not a bad thing, as long as creative juices…
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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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