Every Day’s a New Day
Bozeman, Montana
2026
We’ve been living in this house most of the year for the last 12 years and the other day was the first time I noticed this abstract shadow pattern on the stairs when just the light at the top of the stairs was turned on at night. I guess sometimes you just have to be in the right frame of mind before you can appreciate what’s around you from an artistic standpoint.
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Bare Tree #153
Bighorn Canyon, Montana
2026
Daffy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Democracy Chained
Wichita, Kansas
2003
This image actually appeared as a POTD back in it’s early days in 2003 when but a handful of people had access to it. I repeated it as a POTD in 2010 with the following comment:
“[This image] has been coming to mind lately as I read about all the efforts to stifle voting in the upcoming national election. Voting rights are or should be sacred in this country and what is happening right now is a scary omen of what may be to come. Folks, this is no way to run a democracy!” (Little did I know how true that statement was to become the following January.)
Now some six years later, this image again comes to mind as the country faces not only a renewed assault on voting rights, but also a whole host of other attacks on the ideas and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. As a consequence I’m am truly ambivalent about whether or not celebrating this milestone for the country is what I want to do. Certainly what I said back in 2010 holds even more true today and is worth repeating. Folks, this is no way to run a democracy!
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Sneaking Down the Canyon
Stillwater River, Montana
2026
A rogue snake of clouds trying to impose itself on an otherwise blue sky day.
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Stillwater River Rockscape
Stillwater River, Montana
2026
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Nature’s Ensō
Stillwater River, Montana
2026
Per Wikipedia: In Zen art, an ensō (円相; “circular form”) is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express the Zen mind, which is associated with enlightenment, emptiness, freedom, and the state of no-mind.
Flanked by two simple patches of flowers, perhaps this is an example of Mother Nature engaging in Zen practices.
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Attractive Nuisance
Willow Creek, Montana
2026
Just a bunch of junk inside the grain elevator at Willow Creek, but looking at the shapes and textures without consideration of what the various objects actually are, it is somehow a compelling (to me anyway) abstract composition.
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