Cle Elum and Colchuck

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
-Barbara Kingsolver




Cle Elum River and Colchuck Lake, WA. July 2010

Olympic National Park

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

-Ansel Adams

On the Lena Lake hike with my outdoor photography class

Olympic National Park WA, May 2010

Wallace Falls

Something about these woods

Something I like

Moss and an old man's beard

Dripping rain from a branch in the fading daylight

-Deb Talan "Whetstones"

Wallace Falls State Park, WA. March 2010

Gas Works Park

We're extremely fortunate
to know precisely
the kind of world we live in.
....
Get to know other worlds,
if only for comparison.
-Wislawa Szymborska

March 2010, Seattle WA

Tacoma Waterfront

Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no question, they pass no criticisms.
-George Eliot


January 2010, Tacoma WA

Parkland Flora

At my feet the white-petaled daisies display
the small suns of their center-piece, their--if you don't
mind my saying so--their hearts. Of course
I could be wrong, perhaps their hearts are pale and
narrow and hidden in the roots. What do I know.
But this: is it heaven itself to take what is given
to see what is plain; what the sun
lights up willingly; for example--I think this
as I reach down, not to pick but merely to touch--
the suitability of the field for the daisies, and the
daisies for the field.
-Mary Oliver



Spring 2009, Parkland WA

North Cascade Mountains

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world

and the responsibilities of your life.

-Mary Oliver

August 2009, Copper Basin in the North Cascades and Lake Chelan, WA

Animal Dreams

I know several lives worth living.
Listen, whatever it is you try
to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you
like the dreams of your body...
-Mary Oliver "The Humpbacks"

April 2009, Caldwell ID

January 2010, Tacoma WA

Parkland Sunset

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
-Mary Oliver

Spring 2009, Parkland WA

Fun in the City

You said, "Life has no limit
If you're not afraid to get in it"
And oh, baby, I jumped to you
Since then there's nothing I can't do
I'm never gonna give you up
What do you got if you ain't got love?
-Mason Jennings






































January 2010, Seattle WA

Lake Ingalls Trail

Branches are bare with a pulse underneath
Flowering slowly inside
Your hands are warm and my body is wide
To hold all the promise of blue-velvet dark and stars
All it takes is a little faith and a lot of heart
Sweetheart
-The Weepies


October 2009, Alpine Lakes Wilderness WA

Cape Disappointment

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
-Mary Oliver

January 2008, Cape Disappointment WA

Yakima Flowers

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes
Watch the wind blow down the grass and the grass rise
-Deb Talan

April 2009, Yakima WA