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Bare Tree #112
Cape Arago, Oregon
2023

This image suggests to me a stag deer in its death throes, probably because it reminds me of this photo I took in China back in 2016:

Death of a Stag Deer
Beijing, China
2016

Shore Acres #4
Cape Arago, Oregon
2023

Beachball and larger sized “cannonballs” lodged in the side of a sandstone ridge.

Shore Acres #3
Cape Arago, Oregon
2023

Probably what a morel mushroom looks like to an ant.

Skybox
Dubois, Wyoming
2023

A pair of ospreys enjoying the view from their well-positioned nest atop a dead tree.

Tumult
Bozeman, Montana
2023

A last glimpse of lighter sky before a storm closed in around us. It was a more heinous tumult that occurred 22 years ago today in New York, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania–one that still reverberates in many ways around the world. Eleven years ago today, I had a tumultuous day of sorts of my own, as that was the day I had open-heart surgery to replace my aortic valve. That, however, was a good kind of tumult as the replacement valve, although aging, is serving me quite well still.

A Whole Other World
Bozeman, Montana
2023

Getting a little bored with your everyday surroundings? Get down to ground level and take a look around. It’s a whole new perspective, both literally and figuratively.

The Weight of Water
Bozeman, Montana
2023

Bare Tree #99
Yachats, Oregon
2023

The texture pattern on this hunk of driftwood could pass for a 3D map of the chaotic swirls and currents in the ocean in places like that shown in June 24th’s POTD (minus the froth of course).

(This photo was supposed to be posted on June 25 but for some reason it did not make it live. So I’m posting it today instead, after having just discovered the problem. That’s the reason the Bare Tree sequence number #99 appears chronologically after eleven higher numbers–not that it matters or that you are actually keeping track!)

The Bird Watcher
Columbia River, Oregon
2023

An interesting outfit for a bird watcher; the van she was traveling in was even more so.

The Hieroglyphics of Deterioration
Bozeman, Montana
2023

A cryptic message on the side a mundane dumpster–spelled out in the hieroglyphics of deterioration.