Westmoreland CA

Mitchell, weathering

Tucked in the desert hills of central Oregon, the hamlet of Mitchell is eking out an existence....

Holiday Backstage

This weekend, the neighborhood's annual holiday bazaar materialized briefly in the vast space once occupied by the Red Apple grocery. I was there in the early hours before the throngs showed up to shop for jams, candles, scarves, greeting cards, jewelry, and other mostly locally produced gifts. As always, I was more entranced by what lay behind the scenes, in the bowels of the old store: vacancies within the larger vacancy, relics of commerce.

The Odd Ones

Shuttered Bellevue Goodyear shop



Shuttered Copalis elementary school



Backstage at the Newcastle Safeway