Lost on the Road to Good Intentions
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Claude finally stopped to consider his situation–he was beginning to think he’d made a wrong turn back there somewhere. Sparky had come to that conclusion some time ago but, as usual, was content to just go with the flow as long as he was with the boss.

(The latest in my collection of dystopia related composite images. Components in the image come from Montana, Wyoming, Nevada in the U.S. as well as Ireland, France and China.)

Dream Farm
Glasgow, Montana
2022

If you can’t build your dream farm just yet, paint it on the side of a building for inspiration.

Gourdian Knot #2
Tubac, Arizona
2022

Gourdian Knot #1
Tubac, Arizona
2022

You might have thought I made a spelling error in this image’s title, but no, it was just another opportunity for a lame play on words.

Crow 210
Green Valley, Arizona
2022

Furrows
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2022

Ribs on a fallen saguaro cactus.

Battle Scars
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2022

Scars and imperfections on a saguaro cactus make for an interesting abstract image.

Bare Tree #90
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
2022

Eventually, desertification took a terrible toll on the Ents…

Bare Tree #89
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2022

Still Life With Woodpecker
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2022

A Gila woodpecker to be exact, sitting on a branch of an ocotillo plant. Since I stole the title for this image from Tom Robbins, the least I can do is to include a quote from his book of the same name.

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
                                   ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker