June 29, 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.”