Showing posts with label Columbia River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbia River. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

WW: Rollin' on


(The mighty Columbia looks for the sea, courtesy of my man
Dannon and his Thundering Cell Phone of Justice.)

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Thanksgiving Prayer

                                   From too much hope of living,
                                        From hope and fear set free,
                                   We thank with brief thanksgiving
                                        Whatever gods may be
                                   That no life lives for ever;
                                   That dead men rise up never;
                                   That even the weariest river
                                        Winds somewhere safe to sea.

                                                              Algernon Charles Swinburne



(Photo of a work-weary Columbia shuffling past the Astoria bridge to the Pacific, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Gene Daniels, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.)

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

WW: Paradise in the desert



(Lush green islands in the midst of hundreds of miles of baking sagelands. As the irrigated ground in the distance attests, water is the difference between everything and nothing in this country.)