POTD

Crossing the Divide Preston, Idaho 2009

I believe this is part of an old industrial heat exchanger of some sort.

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Erratic With Child Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

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Loner Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

The proper name for this isolated rock is a glacial erratic. Deposited by glacial ice, erratics differ in size and type compared to the native rocks in the area. This particular rock is about six feet tall, small by comparison to some of the examples shown on Wikipedia here.]]>

Black Rain Salt Lake City, Utah 2014

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Your Dreams Salt Lake City, Utah 2014

The graffiti scrawled on this graffiti says “Your dreams are the world’s nightmares.” Somehow I feel on the nightmare end of that equation this last couple of days.]]>

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The Glue That Holds Us Together Salt Lake City, Utah 2014

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Vertical Music Salt Lake City, Utah 2014

Something seemed really familiar about this pattern of grids on the windows of a building in Salt Lake City. It took me a while to associate them with musical staffs and measure bars. The only thing missing is actual notes notes and a clef. Perhaps I should have called it the unwritten symphony. I didn’t realize it at the time I was photographing it, but this building is a federal courthouse. As such, I suppose I was closely watched while photographing it and wouldn’t be too surprised to receive another visit from my friends at the FBI. (Six years or so ago, in an act of superbly bad timing, I photographed an oil refinery in Billings, MT in shortly after it had received an anonymous bomb threat. That generated a phone call from the sheriff and later a visit to our house from three FBI agents complete with the black Suburban, black suits, guns and badges, and poor senses of humor.)]]>

Pointless Reprieve Bozeman, Montana 2014

The big winter storm they were warning us about fizzled, at least in this area. They got more snow in their storm in the southeast U.S. than we did here. (We got none to a trace.) So the leaves got a bit of a reprieve from decomposing under a blanket of snow all winter. Not that it matters much for this leaf which is doing a good job of decaying away without the help of the snow.]]>

Point-Counterpoint #2 Bozeman, Montana 2014

In some ten years of posting POTDs it’s not surprising that I occasionally end up using the same name I’ve used before without realizing it. Obviously when the subjects are related I will do a series of photos with the same name and use sequence numbers to distinguish them. But, as in the case of this photo, I didn’t realize I’d used the name Point-Counterpoint before until I typed it in as the title and my software basically alerted me to that fact (by automatically adding a sequence number to the URL for the blog post). When this happens it’s interesting, to me anyway, to go back and see in what context I’d used the same name previously. In this case it was a photo from four years ago here. At first glance, I didn’t see any real relationship between the two images; but then realized there is in fact a similarity. See if you can pick it out.]]>