Africa
Bozeman, Montana
2024

The world in a pebble.

Lectio #86
Cody, Wyoming
2024

To read or not to read.

Fear of the Unknown
Cody, Wyoming
2024

Maybe not fear exactly, but certainly a lot of apprehension and concern. Detail of a 1986  sculptural piece called The Unknown by Richard V. Greeves.

Band of the Hand
Cody, Wyoming
2024

I’m not sure if this tipi cover is really old, or just made to look that way. If it’s the latter, they did a really, really good job of it–at least as far as fooling a wasi’chu such as myself.

Faux Moon
Cody, Wyoming
2024

A staged, nighttime scene at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

A Clear and Present Danger
Freezeout Lake, Montana
2024

I know that wind turbines pose a threat to unwary birds flying by (through) them. I also know that in this particular location the wind turbines are surrounded by many grain fields  that the snow geese regularly fly to to feed. However, watching the bird coming back to the lake from the fields in the evening, it appeared to me that they were quite adept at steering well clear of the danger zone.

The Multitude
Freezeout Lake, Montana
2024

The official census said there were some 12,000 snow geese at Freeeout Lake the day I took this photo. This shows about 2/3 of the only bunch we saw. I didn’t try to estimate the numbers here but it seems well short of 12,000.

Knuckle Ridge
Choteau, Montana
2024

I was taken by the consistent, knuckle-like shadows along this smooth-topped ridge. It’s hard to see the gullies eroded into the ridge that are responsible for the shadow’s shape.

Squiggles
Chicago, Illinois
2024

A more structured and more stable version of the moving, squiggly shapes I get in my eyes once in a while. I believe they are often called visual or ocular migraines. Mine always used to precede a bad headache (although not the crazy bad migraines people get thank goodness). But thankfully, in recent years I get the visual distortion and it goes away without any headache occurring.

Stalwart
Chicago, Illinois
2024