Mushroom Factory
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

Top Hat
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

Divergence
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

You could spend some time contemplating which path to take, but unlike with Robert Frost, in this case it wouldn’t make any difference at all because the two paths converge again on the other side of the tree.

Eat Your Broccoli
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

Six and Oh
Rochester, Minnesota
2026

Bollards
Rochester, Minnesota
2026

Noirvember
Bozeman, Montana
2026

You can tell it’s that time of year when even midday shadows can look long and ominous.

The Ragged Edge
Bozeman, Montana
2026

Rivulets Surround Me
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

A lone standout surrounded by rather uniformly distributed rivulets of erosion. (By definition it appears that they’re only rivulets if there is actually water in them, so maybe I should call them seasonal rivulets.)

The Luck of Circumstances
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2026

Trees don’t have any more control over the circumstances of their birth than humans do. But if this tree actually was able to choose it’s spot, it chose well–for the view anyway. Given the erosion going on around it, the spot doesn’t provide the best odds on a long life. But then a safe but boring life is highly overrated.