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Train Shadows #4
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

Train Shadows #3
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

Train Shadows #2
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

Train Shadows #1
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

Waiting for the Harvest
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

A row of grain cars sitting on a siding, presumably staged for the area wheat harvest a few months from now. That seems ordinary except that the grain elevator they’re sitting next to appears defunct, so either the elevator is not defunct or there is another way of getting wheat from a truck into the grain cars. Or a third possibility, afforded by my AI friend, is that the elevator is in fact defunct and the cars are just being stored on the siding at Willow Creek waiting to be hauled elsewhere to be filled. He seemed pretty sure about that so I’m going with his theory.

Trying to Remember
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

If you’ve ever had difficulties remembering things, like I have at times, this perhaps is the perfect metaphor for your brain–an aging old store front and an empty room titled the Hall of Recent Memories.

This is actually the store front for an art gallery in Willow Creek, Montana more formally know as Aunt Dofe’s Hall of Recent Memory. While it looks kaput, it is actually an ongoing gallery that only shows exhibits seasonally. I took this photo just last week, but I imagine the rooms are filled with art by now, as the first show of the season opens today, featuring the work of my photographer friend Lauren  Grabelle.

Speaking of memory, or remembering, today would have been my mother’s 100th birthday, and these days of course it is Junteenth as well.

Elevations #71
Willow Creek, Montana
2026

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a grain elevator photo. I guess I posted one back in February, but before that it was a four year hiatus. This particular grain elevator looks like it’s been on hiatus for many more years than that. Although the outside looks pretty intact, the inside was pretty messed up.

Elevations was one of my first major solo museum exhibitions back in 2009 when it hung at the Wichita Art Museum and it has toured at other museums and galleries over the next nine years. If you’d like to see the exhibition collection of grain elevator photos go to my website here.