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Happy Holidays
Bozeman, Montana
2009

This image is from quite some time ago. We don’t have much opportunity to see this kind of scene at our mountain house these days as we’ve been spending winters in town. I am sad to not see such lovely winter scenes as this anymore but at the same time very happy I don’t have to clear snow on a half mile of road all winter. Life, as we all know, is full of trade-offs.

We’re fortunate again this year to be able to spend some of the wintertime in Arizona, and are headed that way now. We’re camping in the Mojave Desert right now. No snow or cold here. It doesn’t look like Christmas out here but the weather is great.

Old One Eye
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Cow Catcher
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Signifying Nothing
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Crow Light
Bozeman, Montana
2022

A full silhouette of a crow launching off of a street light pole. I like the minimalist, somewhat abstract, look of the image but also the way my eye and brain immediately pick up on the crow but then stumble a bit on recognizing the light pole, I think because it’s expecting it to be another crow.

Flaps Down
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Fly By Try
Bozeman, Montana
2022

The magpies are always trying to find the easiest, most efficient method of getting at the peanut butter smeared on the swinging pine cone. I keep challenging them by changing the configuration to make their life more interesting. After this setup got old, I lengthened the string so the pine cone would swing more when they go at it. They’re pretty smart and more persistent than I am at the game so it generally doesn’t take too them long to pick the pine cone clean no matter where it is hanging.

Head Over Heels
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Peanut butter smeared on a pine cone–worth the effort.

Misguided Intentions
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Another example of when the autofocus on my camera has different ideas about things than I do. Like the photo I posted the other day, I was trying to get a shot of the magpie. Also, like that other post, I kind of like the result the camera chose. In this case, I wish the magpie wasn’t there at all because the snow against the blurred background is quite nice.

Winter Break
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Two sparrows (maybe–I’m not good at identifying the various varieties of little brown birds we have around) take a break between forays to a bird feeder.