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Gallery

Things Worth Noticing

kept in the order I noticed them

Cormorants crowded on a half-submerged log in a prairie pond
No. 01 — Standing room only
Red-winged blackbird half hidden in bright green reeds
No. 02 — The red shoulder gives it away
Spring aspens lighting up a dark pine hillside
No. 03 — Spring moving uphill
Buck-and-rail fence in front of an aspen grove
No. 04 — The fence keeps nothing in
A seedling growing inside the hollow of an aspen trunk
No. 05 — Growing in the gap
A road curving through pines toward snow-streaked peaks
No. 06 — The road points at the mountains
A small burrow entrance in the forest floor
No. 07 — Someone lives here
Hand-painted FERRY TRAIL sign half swallowed by daisies and brush
No. 08 — Ferry trail, if you can find it
A spotted fawn on a gravel path, looking back over its shoulder
No. 09 — Halfway across, second thoughts
A fawn standing among daisies, looking straight at the camera
No. 10 — Caught noticing me back
A rough-hewn picnic table catching low evening light
No. 11 — Reserved for whoever shows up
An empty wooden bench facing the sea at dusk, lighthouse in the distance
No. 12 — Front-row seat, no audience
Bright green seaweed filling a tide pool channel between rocks
No. 13 — The tide left its hair down
Rust, gold, and green mineral colors in a wet rock crevice
No. 14 — The colors were already there
Stone sculptures of people gathered around a table on a golden hillside
No. 15 — A conversation that never ends
One sheep facing four sheep across golden evening grass
No. 16 — Four against one
A bumblebee buried in the pink bloom of a musk thistle
No. 17 — The thistle's only customer
A dense thicket of horsetail stems, fine green threadwork
No. 18 — Older than the dinosaurs, still here
A top-hatted statue silhouetted against fireworks and smoke
No. 19 — He's seen this show before
A narrow dirt trail disappearing through tall grass
No. 20 — The path keeps going
Cottonwoods in full autumn gold beneath a rocky slope
No. 21 — Gold rush
A woodpecker silhouetted in a bare dead tree at dusk
No. 22 — Last shift of the day
A pair of Douglas-fir cones with papery bracts catching the light
No. 23 — Paper tails
A wren perched on a weathered fence post with an insect in its beak
No. 24 — Dinner, delivered
A great blue heron tucked into pale dry cattails
No. 25 — Hiding in plain gray
A meadowlark perched on a dried mullein stalk in winter prairie
No. 26 — A song needs a stage
A bison grazing in winter grass with a small blackbird perched on its back
No. 27 — The passenger