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Home Ground #33
Bozeman, Montana
2024

A little still life sitting on our wood stove, with the pine cones removed during heating season of course.

Home Ground #32
Bozeman, Montana
2024

My grandparents old radio. I’ve owned it for about 40 years, about how long they had it after buying it new in the 1930s. It was not in working order when I got it but I finally had it’s electronics reworked. As a kid I used to listen to all sorts of exotic (to me) AM radio stations as well as the occasional short-wave broadcast. There’s not much in the way of good AM stations any more and short-wave has all but disappeared thanks to the internet. But I had a Bluetooth receiver added to it so now can play music off my phone or computer and enjoy the mellow sounds the old tube system produces. The Fashion Queen says we should only play music from the 30s and 40s given the vintage of the radio. Music from those decades does seem to sound best suited for this equipment.

Home Ground #31
Bozeman, Montana
2024

A jumble of souvenirs, mostly collected from our joint and separate stints in Alaska and Arizona.

Concentricity
Bozeman, Montana
2024

I thought I made up the word concentricity to describe this image, and my spell checker certainly thinks I did. But it turns out it’s an engineering term used in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in manufacturing processes.

Home Ground #30
Bozeman, Montana
2024

An evening view of my workshop building and our garden shed.

Home Ground #29
Bozeman, Montana
2024

This peaceful looking gargoyle has been watching over our pond for too many years. The harsh winters have him slowing disintegrating back into the crushed rock he was made out of. Dust to dust, so to speak.

Bare Tree #135
Bozeman, Montana
2024

I should have posted this one on Halloween. It looks like the skull of some scary many-horned prehistoric beast.

Lectio #85
Chicago, Illinois
2024

It’s been a while since I’ve added to this series on reading. What’s a young woman reading early on a Sunday morning? It wasn’t anything I’d have guess: the novel Blösch by the Swedish author Beat Sterchi who writes in standard German and also the Bernese dialect. The title translates into English as Cow and is about the psychological impact of working in a slaughterhouse. Pretty heavy reading for any day of the week I imagine.

Cat in the Stack
Bozeman, Montana
2024

A special guest post today with a photo by the Fashion Queen a.k.a. Connie Blackwood. I couldn’t have done the subject any better than she did.

Grow Old Along With Me (Home Ground #28)
Bozeman, Montana
2024

The full quote on this sundial is the familiar saying “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” We bought this sundial 40 years ago or so. At that much more tender age, it was really beyond my ability to seriously consider the implications of that phrase. But now, in hindsight I can see that it’s been mostly true for us and I expect that to continue to be the case for a while. Like this sundial and the stand it’s sitting on, the Fashion Queen and I have seen and continue to experience our share of physical deterioration. But unlike the sundial we are fortunate to be able to have experienced–and continue to experience–many increasingly positive non-physical aspects of existence. That will all end someday as is inevitably so, but in the meantime we will carry on the sundial’s command to the greatest extent we can.