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Shelter From the Storm
Bozeman, Montana
2024

One morning during a rainstorm this little bird smacked into to the glass on our patio door and knocked itself out, if not dead altogether. I picked it up and brought it into the house to see if I could revive it somehow. Once I got in the house I realized that was a bad place to bring it because of our cathedral ceilings–if it did revive and decide to fly off, we’d have a really hard time corralling it or steering it outside, so I carried it out to our mudroom on the other side of the house and set it down there. I was going to go find a little box and some bedding for it but before I got a few steps away it jumped up and flew around, landing where you see it in this photo. I opened the door and after a little coaxing (and after it left its calling card on the windowsill), it flew off looking no worse for the wear.

Bare Tree #127
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Patriot’s Dream #89
Maryhill, Washington
2024

The little sign up behind the flag says “No Trespassing, I own firearms and a backhoe. Not very subtle at all, to say the least.

This just came out from Lenswork magazine today, a solo publication that includes 70+ photos from my portfolio of images featuring shadows. It looks great and I am very pleased with it, not to mention it is the 10th time since 2007 that one of my portfolios has been featured in LensWork. And, the Fashion Queen is very happy to have her shadow featured on the cover!

Still Life With Eye of Horus
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Harebell
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Puffball #2
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Puffball #1
Bozeman, Montana
2024

Teddy Bear Tribbles
Ajo, Arizona
2024

Teddy bear cholla is a misleading name for my favorite species of cholla cactus. They are so named because when the sun shines through them, their long spines give off the soft warm look of a cuddly teddy bear, when in fact they are quite the opposite of cuddly. This smattering of small balls of teddy bear cholla joints (which fall off the cactus and snag passersby, hence spreading the plant elsewhere in the desert) reminded me of tribbles of Star Trek fame. This, my second Star Trek reference in a week, refers to the classic episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” broadcast in the second season of the orginal Star Trek series back in 1967. Per Wikipedia, “In this comic episode, the starship Enterprise visits a space station that soon becomes overwhelmed by rapidly reproducing small furry creatures called “tribbles.”

Pac-Persons
Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
2024

I was going to say these lily pads reminded me of the early video game Pac-Man, but in today’s lingo I guess the name would be more inclusive. Besides, back in the day, subsequent to Pac-Man, there was also a Ms. Pac-Man game introduced as well and who am I to speculate on the gender of these particular lily pads.