A Winged Victory of Samothrace adorns the original Arizona State Capitol.  This building is just a museum, as the Capitol is now a trio ...

San Francisco International Airport as seen from the west.  It suffers terribly from delays induced by coastal fog, much more frequently...

Paolo Soleri is a prolific sculptor, urban planner, and theorist.  He spent time with Frank Lloyd Wright, and lives in Scottsdale, not fa...

A flowering Barrel Cactus transmits the light of sunset. It was excessively hot on our visit to Phoenix, with a high temperature of 106°...

Here's the final stage of the same eclipse, setting over western Phoenix. The sun reflects off the Arizona Canal to the lower left, ...

The annular solar eclipse of May 20th was viewed well off its central line, but remained a spectacular sight.  From our vantage point, t...

Multiple concurrent races are run down the Montlake Cut on Windermere Cup regatta day. As the channel under the Montlake Bridge is onl...

This abandoned rail bridge over the Snohomish River, in Snohomish WA, used to be a swing bridge allowing very tall river traffic to pass....

The UW Waterfront Activities Center rents canoes (and other waterborne vehicles) for use on Lake Washington.  On a warm early spring aft...

Portland is no longer a place of bronze plaques, and you'd have a hard time finding any unclothed natives to pose with their papoose ...

Lots going on in this panel on the door to the original headquarters of the United States National Bank (now  U.S. Bancorp ) in central P...

This pit bull was enjoying the sights and smells of the city from the prime vantage point of the back seat of a big truck.  It was sigh...

This pea root was busy fixing nitrogen into its roots all winter, preparing my soil for a growing season for other vegetables.  The light...

Mount Hood is the most perfectly pointed fairy-tale mountaintop.  It lies east of Portland, and is hard to miss on a flight along the wes...

Chris Burden has done all sorts of crazy performance art, most of it more controversial than good.  But at the excellent Los Angeles Cou...