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GALAPAGOS PILGRIMAGE - PART TWO
SEEING THINGSFinch on San CristobalFinch on Isla EspanolaThe finches didn't really make an impression on Darwin. He didn't, at first, notice that the finches in his collection were different from each...
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GALAPAGOS PILGRIMAGE PART THREE: The Book of Nature
“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of...
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GALAPAGOS PILGRIMAGE PART 4: Truth & the Unreliable Narrator
“After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy." - Some old guy with all the best wordsMale blue-footed booby assuming display posture.Blue-footed-booby-doing-mating-display portion of...
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I HAVE A BOOTH at the GRESHAM ART FESTIVAL on SATURDAY, JULY 15th from 9am - 5pm
My photography booth will be up on 3rd Street (close to Main) in downtown Gresham from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, July 15This was my Portland Sunday Parkways booth from before. This year's booth will...
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THE DAY AFTER...
The Gresham Art Festival was a pretty fun experience. I haven’t been a vendor at events like these very often, but when I arrived to put up my booth, there were smiling volunteers available to help...
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A-PIKE-MINNOW-LYPSE
The boat ramp at Armitage County Park is long, narrow and steep and if it had a face, it would probably frown at kayakers who festoon the sides of the ramp with half-packed kayaks and hapless kayak...
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HOME-MADE SOLAR FILTER FOR SALE (ONLY USED ONCE)!
In the Pacific Northwest, I’ve become accustomed to spending many a meteor shower shivering in the dark beneath opaque cloud covers.So there are clouds.Then, as the media began hyping a once in a...
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IF I DON'T GET PAID, DOES THAT MAKE ME — PROMISCUOUS? : I Perform an...
I carefully chose my kayak to be my ultimate photography platform, beer-barge, expedition capable, multi-tasking water-craft, and it has exceeded my expectations.One thing I hadn’t foreseen, however,...
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Eagle Creek Fire Jumps Over the Columbia: Childless Adults Even More Thankful...
The Columbia River Gorge 09/05/2017 at 3:00am (As viewed from the Cape Horn Viewpoint on SR 14. Phoca Rock visible in middle of river.)The Columbia River Gorge 05/31/2010 (from Cape Horn Viewpoint)I've...
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The EAGLE CREEK FIRE & THE END of the WORLD, Part Two
(So, yeah, it’s just an attention grabbing title.)0% containment vs. 11% containmentMany people commented on last week’s pictures of fire in the Columbia Gorge, expressing grief and sorrow that the...
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Eagle Creek Fire: Out of Sight, out of mind.
Several days of rain have driven parts of the Eagle Creek Fire into quiet bouts of seething resentment. But here and there unexpectedly — absent any ventilating breeze — tell-tale plumes of smoke...
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SILVER FALLS FALL
South Falls from the canyon floorI wish I could write poetry about the last warm, sunny days of autumn. I’d try to explain how, despite the morning’s cold, I’ve worked up a little sweat hiking to the...
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SHITTY CONDON POETRY
A thin, icy, cloud painted crystals overnight onto chilly windshieldsTill the morning’s faux summer-sun chased it into low placesWinter’s premature apparition melts in gullies, carved across sloping...
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WHAT'S LEFT?
The lodge at Multnomah Falls is open again — and that’s not fake news. But the lodge is about all that’s open. The route to the first viewpoint is screened off with a section of chain-link fence. This...
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Paired Couplets in Leavenworth or Quadruplets in Twelveworth
Snowman spokesman at Lake Wenatchee, WashingtonSagging, lumpy carrot-nose guideSweats, sublimes, way past his primeShows immortality is deniedExplains the sites in pantomimeLooking toward the West end...
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FEARFULLY MADE: Notes from the Field
EARTH DAY, APRIL 22nd, 10 AM @ REEDWOOD FRIENDS CHURCHBeauty from Chaos has been the working title for the presentation of images I’ve assembled over the last month, but the thing that sparked this...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car camping with Kip and Rico (Part One)
I don’t know how it started for sure. Some intrepid band of Homo sapiens maybe walked over a land bridge from Russia or navigated the seas in functional watercraft. Maybe, at first, they followed the...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip and Rico (Part Two)
In our last episode, after appreciating the subtle nuances of Kip’s latest margarita recipe, we were treated to the intermittent unveiling of the Milky Way as patchwork clouds streamed over us to the...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip & Rico (Part Three)
From my supine perspective in the giant mosquito-net house, the snoring noise emanating from the S.E. corner is, by deduction, Kip, who must have migrated from his chair sometime before dawn. But it is...
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EVOLVING ROADS: Car Camping with Kip & Rico (Part Four)
It’s benign most of the time.You’re warm. Through your eyelids, you can sense sunlight gently streaming in the window. You’ve been talking to your dad, and though your dad died decades ago, part of you...
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