2017 retrospect

Here are a few unpublished pieces from the past year...

Poison: January, Portland OR

Cold: February: Portland OR

Resort: March: Winlock WA

Last ice: April: Bellevue WA

Spit: June: Whiskey Creek WA

Pumpless: July:  Pe Ell WA

Eclipse shadows: August: Bellevue WA

Dairy: September: Skagit Valley WA

Pond: October: Portland OR

Crashpad: November: Salton Sea CA

Patchwork: December: Chehalis WA

Progress

Fort Worden, WA

Cooling

Took a wee roadtrip to Satsop, Washington, where there are a couple of uncompleted nuclear cooling towers gracing the woodland.

November Walks

Ghost signage, Seattle viaduct

Shadows, Wayne Morse Park, Eugene OR

Ferry deck, Puget Sound

Coulon Park, Renton WA

Crows, Renton WA

Matador

My Dear Watson

At last the sun came out on a weekend and I had some spare time to go shooting in the neighborhood. Here are three nearly monochromatic views of the grounds - literally - of the local elementary school where my wife Robin works. The playfield looks rather like a lunar landscape littered with mysterious hieroglyphics and artifacts.

Semi-festive hemi-bollards

The road to Espanol

The Western Hemisphere in danger of going down the drain

What would an alien Sherlock make of such a landscape?

Leftovers

A few abstracts from a brief jaunt to the Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Kingston ferry dock 

Abandoned Port Angeles oiltanks 

Port Angeles 

Pool, defunct Port Angeles motel

Port Townsend 

Mobile antuique shop, Port Townsend 

Truck panels, Kingston ferry 

Things That Make You Go "Hmm"

Concrete box of mystery, Lake Chelan, WA 2011.

A careful reading reveals the proto-sandcastle on the shore as well as the intriguing curve of floats demarking the swim area.

(Why is there a word ["cube," obviously] for a three-dimensional square but not one for the equally common three-dimensional rectangle? [I could say "rectangular parallpiped" but it's nowhere as succinct, now is it?])

Cloudy with a Chance of Rebar

A brief interlude in West Seattle.





Georgia O'Keefe, eat your heart out.