Several species of mallow grow wild in the meadows and along the roadsides here in the Pacific Northwest. I found these pink ones in an alley near my house. They look like small hollyhocks to me, which make sense because hollyhocks are mallows too. I tried to pin down the exact species of these pink [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
Blue and Yellow Irises
Here’s my favorite flower once again. I found this beautiful clump outside the first grade classroom at our local elementary school. The first graders and their teacher raise lots of plants out there. What a cool teacher, eh? I actually took this shot several years ago, but I wanted to bring it back and run [...]
Into the Woods
One of my favorite places in my small town is a wilderness park–I take lots of photos there. It’s full of trees, as you can see, and a delightful variety of wildflowers. The trees make it peaceful and cool, even on the hottest days. You can get a feel for what Oregon was like before [...]
Desolate Beauty
Is it a butte, a bluff, a cliff, an uprising, an outcropping? Is it badlands or simply stark, desolate, barren land? Was is formed by water erosion eons ago, by wind erosion more recently, by glaciers in the last ice age? Are there dinosaurs here? I don’t know, and I want to know. As much [...]
Ready to Go
A BNSF freight train waits beside grain silos in the rail yard at Havre, Montana. (Pronounced “Hav-er.”) I shot the original photo from my train window while we were stopped in Havre. At first I thought that my wide angle lens caused the tracks to curve like that, but peeking at the train yard on [...]
