PRAYER with CROWS

"Prayer with Crows." North Hill, Puyallup, Washington.

PRAYER BEADS

"Prayer Beads." North Hill, Puyallup, Washington.

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"—but just as the golden infinite below us dulls down by stages / into blue waves, so what is past likewise loses life and light, / except for the yellow grass itself,"

—page 345, The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War by William T. Vollmann

PRAYER after the STORM

"Prayer after the Storm." North Hill, Puyallup, Washington.

HARD TO LOVE

"It was always hard to love a Government which, theoretically, was a mere machine and which could extend no sympathy to people in disaster, nor kindness to the impoverished."

—General O. O. Howard, 1907, quoted in The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann

CASPAR DREAMS

Caspar dreams.

Caspar is the current resident North Pacific giant octopus at the Highline MaST Aquarium. Even though he was "hanging" from the top and side of his tank, and appeared to be sleeping, he was watching us. He would take one of his arms and wave just the tip of it right in front of our faces, teasing us, while the rest of his body remained immobile.