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Rapture revisited

June 8, 2008

I posted last week about the Rapture after finding a man’s suit abandoned on church steps in downtown Portland. Today, I stumbled upon this portentous scene on the edge of a lush Willamette Valley wheat field south of Portland: I had stopped to photograph a long train hauling fresh-cut logs (the tracks are in the […]

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My mother never made it west of the Mississippi. Until now. As I write, countless specks of her are in San Francisco Bay and the Pacific, bound for who knows where on the lunar whim of tides. She’s used to the water. When she died in 2003, my two brothers and I scattered some of […]

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Humbled

May 8, 2008

Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art. — Philip James Bailey, English poet More photos of Chaiten volcano eruption in Chile here and here. News here.

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