Photo: Innis Arden as a Japanese landscape

Photo by Wayne Pridemore

The layers of landscape and cloud and the muted tones remind me of a Japanese landscape painting. The colors are Northwest, of course.

Have you noted how many of us dress to match our landscape? All raincoats are black and beige. No one much wears bright yellow and orange. Colors and patterns are muted.

It isn't just the Birkenstocks and socks that identify us as Northwesterners - it's the colors.

DKH