Since 2018, I have posted my likes among the photos I made during the previous year. For 2020, the pickins' are slim; that was a year we stuck close to home, not rich in photo ops. So, few as they are, here are my
Best of '20
The year seemed just to grind on --
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| Pulse, Tony Cragg, Mpls Inst. of Arts |
In June we snuck away to a lake on San Juan Island. I watched an owl dive into the reeds, expecting her to come up with a duckling. No! Astonishing; she had a snake half again her height! She flew up into the fir right off our balcony where she sat gnawing on her lunch and eyeing me. The Athenians would have understood the good omen: their snake symbolized uncertainty, the boundary between one state and another, between life and death. And here, Athena, goddess of wisdom in her manifestation of Owl, was defeating uncertain fate. It promised poorly for the virus, good for mankind (or, at least. for Athenians.)
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| Pa pileated and fledgling |
The sun rose each day, promising that we'd get through this --
-- especially if we stayed together.
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| September: day hike over Sourdough Gap into Rainier Nat'l Park |
