"Give me wine . . . that I may for a time forget the cares of the world." --Hafiz

Well, perhaps not.  :)

Faster, Mom, Faster!

Snow Fence

 

Conservation with imagination, I love it!

No Parking

But who's gonna tell him?

His Appointed Rounds

Just messing with color on this adorable little black bear cub, who was intent on following Mom and not fazed at all by cars.

Which is as it should be; it's our responsibility not to flatten him.  After all, if bears packed their coolers with snow-melt water and ant snacks and came to vacation in my living room, I'd expect considerate behavior from them.

The Romance of the West

 

And I'm completely smitten.

Soft Desert Morning

 

The arid buttes where wild horses still roam, near Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Blue Butte

I Walk The Line

Always Grand

Before Dawn

Moose Munch

Blue Morning, Blue Day

Signal Mountain Morning

A History of Hard Labor

 

One of the historic first homes in the fertile but snowy Jackson Hole.  (The nearby town is Jackson; the valley itself is called Jackson Hole.  Early Mormon settlers couldn't know that this beautiful but harsh environment would someday become the most expensive place to live in the U.S.)