June 2015

Prairie Smoke #3
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Why They Call It Prairie Smoke
Bozeman, Montana
2015

We have a wildflower book that calls these hooded avens, but they’re more commonly know as prairie smoke, and officially as geum triflorum.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass
Bozeman, Montana
2015

I didn’t realize the metaphor potential in this shot of flower petals dropping until I noticed the clock in the background when I was framing up the compostion in my viewfinder. I guess I could have gone the Steve Miller Band route rather than the soap opera route for the title: “Time keeps on slippin‘, slippin’, slippin’ into the future.”

Salt Lake City, Utah
2015
(Photo by Connie Blackwood)

The amazing thing is that this flag is flying at a city building. In Salt Lake City. In Utah. Bob was right, the times are in fact changing.

Well-Used
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2015

Do buffalo grow new horns? I hope so, this one really needs some replacements. They probably get worn down from all the tourists tossing they like to do when folks wander a bit too close. (No, I wasn’t that close. I was sitting safely in my car across the road trying out my new telephoto lens.)

Salt Lake City Utah
2015
(Photo by Connie Blackwood)

 This was yesterday across the street from the art show–at 11:30 a.m. Supposed to be hotter today. Ugh.

Spread Eagle
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2015

Storm-Swept Landscape
Denver, Colorado
2015

When I saw this dust on a stucco wall, it immediately reminded of a storm sweeping over a mountainous landscape, reminiscent of old Japanese paintings like these:

Subterranean Code
Denver, Colorado
2015

Coded messages on a light in an underpass in downtown Denver.

Late for a Very Important Meeting
Denver, Colorado
2015

This would have been a more surprising encounter for me if I didn’t know the Comic Con convention was going on in the building behind these two. (And a more curious POTD experience for you if I hadn’t mentioned that!)