Sitting Places #41
Ajo, Arizona
2025

Sitting Places #40
Ajo, Arizona
2025

Slant
Bozeman, Montana
2026

It’s only a couple of times a year that I get shadows like this on the worktable in my studio. I haven’t kept track of what times of the year this happens and for how long, but now must be one of those times as I took this photo yesterday. Archeologists of the future might think that Venetian blinds were some sort of crude astronomical calendar. And speaking of which, my calendar, crude or otherwise, tells me this is the Fashion Queen’s birthday. It’s a nice round number, more than that I shouldn’t say. But I have had the privilege of spending more than half of her life with her. I am a better person for it, not mention happier.

Pebble Power
Ajo, Arizona
2025

I’m sure the pebble found its way to the center of this tree stump after all the cracking and splitting occurred, but my eyes keep suggesting otherwise.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

This axiom, like many others, doesn’t always ring true. The desert tortoise is listed as a threatened species for a number of reasons, one of which is while crossing the road their slow walking speed leaves them vulnerable to automobiles. As fast as can be is more likely to win the road crossing race. The highway north of Boulder City through the Lake Mead National Recreation Area has 18″  high fences along both sides for miles. I though they were leprechaun fences or something until I found out they were put there to direct tortoises to safe crossings under the highway.

Venomous
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

Leaping Lizards!
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

They’re often called horny toads, which is a misnomer in that they are really lizards. They’re also not nearly as big as this one.

The Stuff of Nightmares
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

Jackrabbit Slim
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

About an 8′ high jackrabbit pictured in front of Boulder City’s namesake environment.

Bunny Flop
Bozeman, Montana
2026

A young teenage girl, holding a skateboard and wearing a bike helmet, getting ready to try and pull her clearly pampered pet rabbits behind her, each on it’s own heavy looking wooden wagon. We stopped and talked to her (and her dad) for a while about what it’s like to have rabbits as indoor pets. The rabbits seemed totally unperturbed by strangers, barely moving the whole time we were there. We should have stuck around to see if she could actually pull the two wagons behind her on her skateboard but didn’t. I don’t remember the name of the rabbit on the front wagon, but the one on the trailing wagon’s name is Bunny Flop.