Rusty Ring

(On my recent visit to Spokane I was struck by the sci-fi aesthetics of this building going up on the far side of the river. The c...

(I made this fudo [look left; hanging from the bell] in 2009, for friends in Spokane County. When I took care of their farm for a few...

(The Spokane Regional Health District is an arresting sight, inspired as it apparently was by the architecture of West and Central Afric...

(Opuntia fragilis or x columbiana , depending where you sit in that debate. It's important to know where you sit when Opunti...

(This passage, drawn from my manuscript Rough Around the Edges: A Journey Through Washington's Borderlands , refers to the Sinlahekin ...

Crashing from a precipice of six inches, this raging cataract of last week's rainstorm runoff has chewed its overhang backward a...

(This is an excerpt from a manuscript about an epic outbacking trek I took six years before I became a monk. As you can see in the p...

(My QRP rig set up in a friend's back garden.)

(Sagebrush [Artemisia tridentata] collected on my last trip to the Gold Side hangs on the foot of my cot.)

(Open in a new window to better appreciate the beauty of this unique habitat.)

(Opuntia sp.)

These Okanogan Forest Service roads are punctuated by the weathered husks of farmhouses, their glass and paint long departed, their...

Pullman is improbable. Even from a distance, the town looks, not out of place, but out of epoch. In theory it's a typical prairie ...

From birth, a great wall screens the Greensider from an uncomfortable reality. We live with our backs to it, like riverboat gamblers, indi...

Scalding days here on the North Coast put me in mind of a great simple delicacy, the sublime sunshine tea. Nothing beats this stuff on a ...

"There are some children who aren't really children at all; they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they...