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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.

Home Ground #22
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Some unrelated items on display here, but the horse and the vase have something in common because the vase is a piece of horsehair pottery. To produce horsehair pottery, the artist first heats the pottery to some insanely high temperature in a kiln and then drapes horsehairs onto its surface. They are quickly burned off and the carbon residue forms the pattern on the piece.

Home Ground #21
Bozeman, Montana
2024

My first serious photography work in the late 1960s was done using my father’s Argus C3 35mm rangefinder camera. I don’t know what happened to his old camera, but when I say this one for sale for a few bucks several decades later I bought it for old times’ sake. This one was in noticeably worse cosmetic condition than my father’s, but then it was quite a bit older by the time I acquired it.

Home Ground #20
Bozeman, Montana
2024

No rural home is complete without a set of appropriate field guides for understanding the natural world around them. I think actual print copies are still important, even in this digital age.

Home Ground #19
Bozeman, Montana
2024

My first dog Pilgrim, a German shorthaired pointer mix, spent much of her life in this house and is buried on the hill nearby. I am reminded of her every time I see these bookends.

Home Ground #18
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Since I was designing the house using inspiration from old Victorian homes, I really wanted to include a back staircase or even a hidden staircase somewhere in the house. The problem was that those old Victorian homes with those kinds of features were way larger than the 1300 square feet we were working with, so there just wasn’t room and I had to settle for just the one stairway.