February 2014

Snowblind Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

We have good friends who are among the ranks of Yellowstone National Park’s serious wolf watchers, spending hours and days looking for and peering through spotting scopes observing wolves and other wildlife. (Hi Ned and Teresa!) I like viewing wildlife as well, but am mostly content to wait for them to present themselves to me unexpectedly. That’s exactly what this wolf did a few weeks ago when I was driving back to Mammoth Hot Springs after skiing. I got some easy close-up photos of the wolf, but they didn’t really distinguish themselves from all the excellent photos that the wolf watchers have amassed since the wolves’ reintroduction into Yellowstone a couple of decades ago. So I felt compelled to take a little artistic license with this one.]]>

Layer Cake Spokane, Washington 2013

This is actually a multilevel parking garage in downtown Spokane. Besides a cake it also occurred to me that this image could be an extreme closeup of some very corroded platens on a computer hard drive. Good luck recovering any data from them.]]>

Drunks and Lamposts Bozeman, Montana 2012

This guy was neither drunk nor in need of support (although rumor has it there were times in his past when that might have been the case).  Instead he’s just a statistician illustrating  the old saying that some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost: more for support than illumination.]]>

Uptown, Downtown Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

Typical street traffic near the center of Granada. I can kind of relate to the differences in  dress among the young ladies in the photo. Usually when the Fashion Queen and I go out, she’ll be dressed more like the woman on the curb while I’m a good match for the jeans and t-shirt crowd in the gutter.]]>

Special Delivery Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Love and Chaos Paris, France 2013

A collage of tree carvings along the Seine in Paris.

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Mixed Signals Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

Her outfit suggests a hot night on the town but the baby in the carriage suggests something more sedate. Maybe she was just heading to the babysitter’s.]]>

Strike Up the Band Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

One of the many street bands we saw during our stay in Grenada; this one during a parade that was part of the Purisima Concepción de Maria celebration.]]>

Kite Flyer #2 Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

It’s way up there now, with another one on deck in the background.

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Kite Flyer #1 Grenada, Nicaragua 2013

There’s always a steady breeze coming off the lake in Grenada. But it’s generally just that, a breeze, so I had my doubts that this kite was going to get much altitude. But in the end they didn’t do too badly.]]>