Contortionist

Stopping in a Snowy Wood

A Snowy Walk by the River

Southwest Boise

A favorite walk near my home is a jaunt of nearly 3 miles around this large alfalfa field. There is always a flock of geese or, in summer, a family of rockchucks to be seen.

Winter Afternoon, Boise

Two old cottonwoods flanked by a couple of upstarts along an old and disused irrigation ditch. These trees and their tie to the history of this place have inhabited my mental landscape for decades.

Vintage Ski-Doo and Sleigh

Today I walked the half-mile to my nephew's school Christmas program and encountered this quaint little sleigh sitting at the edge of a field. I wondered if somebody's grandchildren had spent a happy snow day with their grandfather, and what memories they will have and cherish of that time.

Bunch Grass Porcupine in Snow

"And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. -Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5.

This phrase is the first printed sorce of the expression "hair stand on end". Thank you for that fine image and coinage, Mr. Shakespeare.