August 19, 2023

She Sleeps With the Fishes
Bozeman, Montana
2023

In this case, the Fashion Queen went down to the pond to feed the goldfish and I later found her like this. She said the sun felt good so she decided to lay down and catch a few winks. She wasn’t wearing a hat however, so she pulled her sweatshirt up over her head to protect her face from the sun. An odd place to take a nap perhaps but I wasn’t too surprised; one day 40 years ago when we were building our house, I found her stretched out sleeping in the bucket of a front-end loader parked on the garage pad. I’m envious of how she seems to manage to sleep just about anywhere.

(The title of this photo is a reference to but in fact, in a sense, the antithesis of the line used in the movie The Godfather: “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”)