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Manzanita Beach, December 6, 2024 Manzanita I Seeing it, why try to paint the ocean? Tides come; death and life, erased. Cannon Bea...

Red ink sundew (Drosera erythrorhiza) in Lesueur National Park, September 2021 , Calistemon, 2021 A paper cut, then a dark red bead—heme,...

Otter Mound Preserve , Carol VanHook, 2010 Your voice, imagine it—held in a conch shell, or in the damp cold breath of an unformed wish...

Image from this site . To bite down on the very thing itself that gives shape to our sounds, voice to our breath? Holding the idiom clo...

" Vanitas Still Life ," Jan van Kessel the Elder, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Public Domain The gray sparkling du...

Near Ernst tinaja, Big Bend National Park , photo by Geoff Gallice , 2011 1. Drawing a nude model (oh no not naked, we say “nude” and I ...

From here ; photographer and date unknown 1. Summer heat, a distant memory at the end of March in Portland. And even further back, the ...