October 2024

The Long Way

Chicago, Illinois

2024

Accidental Abstract

Chicago, Illinois

2024

It’s just a temporary sheetrock wall at the airport but it is just as engaging as some of the modern art that we saw at the art Institute of Chicago.

Break Time

Chicago, Illinois

2024

I’ve been traveling and thought I had POTDs set up to auto-post while we’ve been gone. But apparently I messed up somehow as there are no more scheduled and we won’t be home where I can work on some new ones for a few days.  So while in the airport in Chicago, I can at least get one off using my phone camera while waiting for our flight.

We are in a pretty slack part of the airport (unusual for Chicago O’Hare) and this employee some slack time to get before his next task

Monster Cookie
Buffalo Bill State Park, Wyoming
2024

I couldn’t figure out if this was a tight conglomeration of little fossils or just rock bits. Perhaps it’s some of both.

Driftwood #14
Buffalo Bill State Park, Wyoming
2024

One last driftwood image from our stay at Buffalo Bill State Park. I like the flowing, wavy look of the branches on this log, reminiscent of leaves of water grass waving in the current.

One-Eye
Cedar Mesa, Utah
2024

This alcove formation is more free-form, more abstract than the one I posted yesterday. I’m not sure I see anything there in particular, except perhaps the head of a great-horned owl with one eye open, one eye closed sitting on a stump. But that’s kind of a stretch. I think I’ll stick with it being simply an interesting free-form construction.

Rock Tree
Cedar Mesa, Utah
2024

I can see a tree with a thick, lush crown sitting in this rock alcove.

POTD: Bare Tree #134
Cedar Mesa, Utah
2024

I like the way the layered lines of the rock compliment those in the bark of the adjacent juniper tree.

Bare Tree #133
Cedar Mesa, Utah
2024

 

Illegal  in Some Jurisdictions
Bozeman, Montana
2024

When I was a kid it seemed like every home had some sort of clothesline in the back yard. Now almost none do. This is in part to some HOAs and cities actually banning them. That’s too bad given the climate change issue. I know in some places, e.g. Idaho Falls (at least this was true 20 years ago) there have been local efforts to bring back clotheslines. The HOA for our house in town does not allow them, but at our mountain house there are no such restrictions; and even if there were I don’t think the deer or other critters that wander by would care if we were breaking the rules.