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POTD: Lunch Time

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Lunch Time
Bozeman, Montana
2026

One bird’s luck is another’s demise. The victim was, I believe, a pigeon. The victor is a Cooper’s hawk at least according to my AI friend Al. It’s hard, for me anyway, to differentiate between a Cooper’s hawk and a sharp-shinned hawk. I had my doubts even after Al gave a lengthy argument in the Cooper’s favor. But it was his comments about sharp-shinned hawks not typically taking prey as big as a pigeon that finally convinced me.  In this second photo, you can see the hawk flying off with the pigeon body hanging behind it, held with one claw.

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POTD: Sitting Places #43

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Sitting Places #43
Ajo, Arizona
2026

Places like this attract me because they imply a simple lifestyle based on basic needs and nothing more. That simplicity is something to aspire to perhaps, except to the extent that it also suggests poverty, which is not only nothing to aspire to but also suggesting anything but a simple life once struggling for the necessities is taken into account.

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POTD: Home Ground #45

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Home Ground #45
Bozeman, Montana
2024

My father built this birdhouse for us years ago. The Fashion Queen liked its simplicity and shape too much to hang it outside somewhere in the weather. So it’s been sitting on this shelf in our mudroom all this time, collecting a few other “knickknacks” to keep it company.

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POTD: Home Ground #44

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Home Ground #44
Bozeman, Montana
2024

A few of the seemingly solid rocks in the rock walls we built turned out not so solid and disintegrated over time. In this case the hole left by one of the by-gone rocks was plugged with wish rocks that happened to be sitting nearby. (A wish rock is any rock with a solid band running clear round it. It’s possession grant’s the holder one wish.)

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