December 2025

Modern Pictographs #4
Chloride, Arizona
2025

A lot of interesting themes here, none of which I can make much sense out of. But it’s interesting just the same.

Modern Pictographs #3
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Modern Pictographs #2
Chloride, Arizona
2025

The text at the bottom of this boulder says “Painted Originally in 1966, Repainted in 2006. My friend Teresa was commenting to me recently about how much quicker red ink fades in the sun compared to other colors, in particular blue. That has me wondering how red (rather than pink) this boulder might have been 24 years ago when it was repainted. The boulder from yesterdays POT, assuming it was painted about the same time,  has certainly kept it’s bright blue color well.

Modern Pictographs #1
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Does an image on a rock have to be old to be considered a pictograph rather than graffiti? Or if it’s billed as an art project, does that remove it from the graffiti category? I don’t know but someone has been busy recently in the otherwise sleepy looking little town of Chloride.

Bare Tree #140
Chloride, Arizona
2025

Home Ground #37
Bozeman, Montana
2024

According to the Law
Chloride, Arizona
2025

A law office display that may or may not have ever actually looked like this.

This will be the last POTD for about a week. Today we start driving back to the Mayo Clinic for a (hopefully) routine followup to my heart transplant. It is seeming more and more questionable that driving 1,000 mile in the weather that’s coming makes any sense, but being immunocompromised due to the anti-rejection drugs I’m taking, I didn’t like the thought of spending time in crowded airports and planes in the middle of flu season. At least if we get stuck in a snowdrift somewhere I won’t have to worry about airport contagions while waiting to be rescued.

As I indicated above, POTD will return in about a week.

Cheap Trash
Chloride, Arizona
2025

We have no cheap trash service here, either by name or cost, so I had to chuckle when I saw this.

A Combination of the Two
Cherry Creek, Nevada
2017

I revisited Cherry Creek in 2017, the first time I’d been there since I took the photo Patriot’s Dream #1 thirteen years earlier (as shown in yesterday’s post). Weather had really taken it’s toll on the flag in the window during that time. I wonder what it looks like now.

I was going to call this image simply Patriot’s Dream #92, but the I realized it also could/should be Sitting Places #31. So I guess it should get a hyphenated name combining those two name.

Patriot’s Dream #91
Chloride, Arizona
2025

This flag photo reminds me of the very first Patriot’s Dream image I took 21 years ago in Cherry Creek, Nevada. It too was in the window of a small white cabin, only in a more rundown condition than the cabin in today’s photo. Here’s that photo:

Patriot’s Dream #1
Cherry Creek, Nevada
2004