Portal (Bare Tree #79)
Bozeman, Montana
2021

Cleavage (Bare Tree #78)
Bozeman, Montana
2021

Look What the Wind Drug In
Bozeman, Montana
2021

A random still life of leaves that showed up on our front porch one windy day this fall. Can you still legitimately call it a still life when it came about that way?

Going Green
Bozeman, Montana
2021

There’s not much to recommend this image aesthetically but I thought the scene odd so photographed it. I’ve seen ice form on creeks and also green slime but I’ve never seen the green slime so nicely encased in ice. Kind of a strange note to end the 2021 year of POTDs on, but as those with nothing enlightening to say like to say, “it is what it is.”

Snow Geometry
Bozeman, Montana
2021

I like the way the snow highlights the arrangement of roof and wall shapes on these farm outbuildings.

Winter at the Little Library
Bozeman, Montana
2021

Angel Wings
Bozeman, Montana
2021

Fetal Leaf
Bozeman, Montana
2021

So It Begins
Bozeman, Montana
2021

I took this photo back when we were first seeing signs of winter here so it seems out of order given I’ve posted a series of photos from a more recent heavy snowfall. But I wanted to post it nonetheless as it is relevant to our current situation, or at least the accompanying story below.

My Uncle Glenn who lived in Ohio had a school bus that he converted to a camper. Every winter he drove it to Texas to live where it was warm until spring. Once he told my father that if he woke up to find he had to scrape frost off his windshield in Ohio then he knew he’d stayed up north too long. We’re not that adverse to cold weather, but we are on our way to Arizona for the months of January and February of 2022, so I suppose we’re getting there. Our schedule for our travels south is very weather dependent as we prefer not to travel on roads that are too icy or in weather that is too stormy. To the extent this trip entails much of either of those conditions, my uncle’s approach will seem wiser and wiser.

P.S. On the road two days now. Yesterday’s drive made my uncle’s approach seem very wise indeed.

Happy Holidays 2021
Bozeman, Montana
2021

Happy Holidays from Santamingo!

Once Christmas is over, Santamingo will be heading south. We’ll be following him, heading to Arizona for a couple of months. While we’re in transit I’ll be continuing to post images from Montana but soon after we get settled in Tubac where we are staying you’ll see images from the Sonoran Desert for a while.