Tag: American West
Red, White, and Blue and Blue
The view from my deck.
The red, white & blue is some bunting that I have hung (my country’s 250th anniversary is coming up). The additional blue, in the background — flax flowers.
I Made a Real Good Thing
Here it is.
Behold, Turkeys
These were spotted last week, in Spring. Mating season? The toms all had their tails fanned, as you see, but they were behaving themselves … just walking around and grazing.
In the background, sage and juniper. I live in a semiarid climate.
Hoarfrost 2026
Nota bene: I planned this post and uploaded these photos before the big snowstorm hit the southern & eastern United States. Here in the West, we have had an unseasonably mild and un-snowy winter. So these are not disaster pictures, just the wonders of Nature. Enjoy!
The Horizon is Tougher Than That
It began as a beautiful field,
then became a dusty lot, then
a rapidly rising skeleton to
which insects trundled, their
headlights glowing in the dusk. Now it’s a shiny dull something, a
warehouse or machine shed.
You’d think it would block the horizon, but no.
The horizon is tougher than that, and springs back into place.
You could build a hundred of these warehouse things and not fill up the big sky.
So don’t worry.
Out of Babel Books 