Calder in Montana
Tippet Rise Art Center, Montana
2018

Tippet Rise Art Center, which has only been in operation for a few years now, is integrated into an 11,000 acre working ranch and is known for its large-scale art installations as well as world-class music performances. We visited there last weekend for an art tour and a concert. I was not aware until I saw it that one of the large art pieces was in fact a sculpture by Alexander Calder, on long-term loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. What a pleasant surprise that was (along with the smaller Calder mobile hanging in their Olivier Music Barn).

Bare Tree #13
Island Lake, Wyoming
2018

Bare Tree #12
Island Lake, Wyoming
2018

Bare Tree #11
Island Lake, Wyoming
2018

Bare Tree #10
Island Lake, Wyoming
2018

Bare Tree #9
Island Lake, Wyoming
2018

Two Suns #2
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2018

Another shot of the sunrise on Sunday with a different framing and also taken at a point in time where the fog was extra thick. (Or else the shot was not properly focused!) Either way I like the more gauzy look.

Two Suns
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2018

Unfortunately, we’ve had no shortage of very red or yellow or orange “disk” sunrises and sunsets in this area due to all the forest fire smoke from local fires and those as far away as the west coast. Happily, this sunrise in Yellowstone National Park on Sunday was due not to smoke but to heavy fog after a nice night of rainfall.

Deco Drama
Bannack, Montana
2018

Linoleum Landscape
Bannack, Montana
2018

A Mondrianesque depiction of what agricultural land looks like from three miles up.