Sawtooth Agave #7
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Sawtooth Agave #6
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

This dead agave looked like it got so hot in the desert heat that it just melted.

Sawtooth Agave #5
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Impenetrable
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Turner on a Rock
Bozeman, Montana
2020

I discovered this moonrise landscape in lichen (slightly enhanced in Photoshop) on a rock near our cabin. It reminded me of the many impressionist storm paintings by JMW Turner such as this one, Rough Sea With Wreckage:

Finally, Spring
Bozeman, Montana
2020

The snow is almost all gone at our mountain house and we’re finally able to drive up there. The lupine are starting to grow, which is a sure sign that spring is here, as is the fact that the moisture coming down is in the form of rain rather than snow. I’m really excited about staying up there for the summer if for no other reason other than it’s so much easier to maintain an appropriate social distance from your neighbors when you live on 40 acres.

In the Trenches
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Roll Out the Barrels
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

Silent Cactus
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

He was looking right at me with his off-kilter eyes and big nose, but he never said a word.

Yucca Wagon Wheel
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona
2020

This yucca died in the shape of the hub and spokes of an old wooden Conestoga wagon wheel.