"… loved the ‘fog facts’ section, the information on the mountains, [and] all of the ‘Reflections on Mount Rainier’ material – the photos and information."

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    "Crossings is a gift of love, to Puget Sound commuters and tourists, and to all who love light and water, harbors and shorelines, mountains and sky.     "I especially admire the book’s subtly educative power.  By the force of example, it teaches the reader to SEE.     It insists on the infinite variety of what most of us, desensitized by the routine actions of daily life, so easily dismiss as 'more of the same' – another sunrise, another sunset, another arrival or departure, another glance across an expanse or at a backdrop whose details we have long ceased to attend to, or perhaps never knew how to take in properly.  It demonstrates how insight can enable sight.     "It does this by the cumulative effect of its recurrent images.  ...  It is very hard to pay attention, to be mindful, especially as the years pile up.  The quiet persistence of Crossings, like an unwearying succession of gentle waves, dissolves away the accretions of habit and frees one to seek again one’s birthright as a human being, the direct experience of physical reality.     "... the photographs are consistently beautiful, and the writing unfailingly graceful, and delicate in its discriminations.  What sets the book apart, however, at least for me, is what I have just described."