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Not blogging much these days, but still posting pics and a few thoughts now and then.

May it be beautiful before me. / May it be beautiful behind me. / May it be beautiful above me. / May it be beautiful below me. / May I walk in beauty.
~Navajo prayer

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New West Featured Photo

This is the featured photo on New West.

New West Featured Photo

This photo is featured on New West. I was driving home April 11 when I spotted about two dozen mountain bluebirds flitting about on the fence and hillside. I managed to get this shot before they all flew . . . → Read More: New West Featured Photo

Slowly But Surely, Spring Is Springing

 

 

 

 

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Roxy Theatre

During a spring snowstorm in Choteau.

Domesticating Wilderness And Other Ironies

“Taxidermy, the three-dimensional representation of animals for permanent display, has been around since the eighteenth century, but it was first brought into popular regard by the Victorians, who thrilled to all tokens of exotic travel and especially to any domesticated representations of wilderness — the glassed-in miniature rain forest on the tea table, . . . → Read More: Domesticating Wilderness And Other Ironies

Freezeout Lake Bird Migration

 

 

 

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Mystery Rainbow Over The Bitterroots

I shot this about a month ago. It was strange to see a rainbow on a winter morning. There wasn’t any precipitation that I’m aware of. We speculated that it was created by ice crystals or fog rising from the . . . → Read More: Mystery Rainbow Over The Bitterroots

Black Locust Tree and Winter Sunset

The Lady in the Glass

Chinook, Montana.

Halloween Sunset