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Cafe General Repairs
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
2011

For a shuttered and abandoned building, this one sure had a neat, growing-old-gracefully, appearance. I like the well-defined shapes and the texture the angled sun gives to the concrete block walls.

Snowfence Jesus
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
2011

This snowfence has seen better days, and the way the wind was blowing when I took this, even Jesus was wise to seek shelter behind that bush.

Patriot’s Dream #16
State Highway #220, Wyoming
2011

Took this photo of what I guess you could call a ghost-rider a couple of days ago out in Marlboro Country somewhere.

Blue Skies and Tailwinds
State Highway 487, Wyoming
2011

After bucking too many gray winter skies and headwinds in the last few months (both literally and metaphorically) it’s nice to finally experience some blue skies and tailwinds (both literally and metaphorically). It probably takes someone with Kansas roots to think of photographing such a flat, empty landscape when there are so many mountains around. I find them very soothing, at least in the right dosage. We’ll see if I get my fill by the time I finish my visit to Wichita.

Here’s a song about going with the wind, courtesy of the Irish band The Pogues. If you need a little help translating from Irish english, the lyrics can be found here.

Hitting the Road
Bozeman, Montana
2011

As soon as I post this, I’m on the road to Wichita. I’m hoping to see nothing but dry pavement on the way there. It won’t be as photogenic as this, but it makes for more relaxed driving.

Arrested Development
Livingston, Montana
2011

I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, take a run-down defunct hotel on the corner of the two busiest streets in town and convert it into an upscale condominium complex. Then the real estate bubble burst. Now there is an empty defunct condominium complex on the corner of the two busiest streets in town.

In the Morning When I Rise
Bozeman, Montana
2011

I took this photo of the sun trying to burn through the fog as it came up over the ridge behind our house a couple of days ago as we were on the way out our front door headed to a cafe over in Livingston for our usual Sunday morning breakfast. The title is from a Kenny Loggins song. It’s an appropriate title, but not my favorite song so I won’t post a video of it or anything. Too bad we weren’t going out the back door instead of the front door. Then I could have posted this just as happy but less sappy song from roughly the same era:

Spring Blossoms
Bozeman, Montana
2011

Quite a ways south of here, I hear Bradford Pear trees are inundating neighborhoods with springtime boughs heavy with white blossoms and covering the ground with windblown drifts of petals. Here in the Rockies, we’re still getting the same old white blossoms and drifts we’ve been seeing all winter. At least ours don’t smell (although it really stinks to wake up in the morning to see yet another snowstorm in progress).

My cousin sent me this video. It has nothing to do with photography but it so made my day I had to post it just in case it might do the same for someone else. If this is (as Lawrence Welk calls it) a modern spiritual, I want to join that church!

Window Abstract #2
Wilsall, Montana
2011

Here’s another image from the little series on thegrain elevator in Wilsall that I had going before all that hospital business interrupted my photographic train of thought.