September 2024

POTD: Home Ground #12

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Home Ground #12
Bozeman, Montana
2024

I would be remiss, in fact have been remiss, in not including an exterior photo of the entire house in this Home Ground series to provide a better context for all the interior photos. So, better late than never, here is such a shot. The house construction began in 1983 and continued for some 15 years or so, although we have lived in the unfinished house since the fall of 1983. (Graduate school, living most of the time in another city for 18 years, and jobs slowed building down a bit.) The outbuildings were built later. Like most farm and ranch homes, the square footage in the outbuildings is notably larger than the 1,300 square feet in the house itself.)

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POTD: Home Ground #11

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Home Ground #11
Bozeman, Montana
2024

This photo is a bit out of character for what I’m trying to portray in this series but I thought I’d post it anyway. It’s a part of our house in which I rarely venture. When we moved back full time to our small mountain home after living most of the time in a much larger house for 18 years, the Fashion Queen needed more closet space. So she took over the largely unused walk-in attic. It’s now filled with clothes, shoes and this small chest of drawers she uses for many of those unknown to me rituals required of fashion queens everywhere.

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POTD: Still Life With Buffaloberries and Sunset Light

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Still Life With Buffaloberries and Sunset Light
Bozeman, Montana
2024

One of the very, very few pluses of the wildfire smoke we’ve experienced off and on for much of the summer is the tinted color of the sunlight, especially at sunrise and sunset. Given my druthers though, I’d forego those opportunities to see the world in a different light.

Speaking of altered lighting, this morning I saw the sun rise twice. The first time it was fully above the mountains on the horizon to the east of us, barely visible through some rather thick haze and smoke. Then, a few minutes later I looked out again and not only had the smoke more or less dissipated but the bright red disk of the sun was only sticking half way up behind the mountains. Baring some kind of mental hallucination, I can only attribute this to some unusually strong and fast changing refraction effect in the atmosphere. I know that refraction of light does occur at all times in the atmosphere and can be particularly strong at sunrise and sunset. But this is a rather extreme example, I suppose due to the amount of change in the density of the air when the smoke cleared away. I wished I had photos of the two suns–that would make a great POTD!

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POTD: Posers

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Posers
Bozeman, Montana
2024

I found these two halves of a piece of broken gravel in the gravel border around our house. Besides the surprise of finding two halves of the same rock within a short distance (12″?) of each other amid all the other random gravel pieces, I was taken by the way the cross sections of the swirls of material within the rock s mimic leaves of grass or other plants. These swirls carry all the way through the rock but on the outside they just look like rock swirls, taking no obvious shape. I guess I could have called this post Faux Fossils because they are reminiscent of the botanical fossils that are abundant in certain places.

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