Autumn Wyoming Milky Way

My modest rookie luck should be credited to Wyoming’s beautiful, light-pollution-free night skies.

A Cow Horse I Once Knew

He seemed to think it was part of his big-sky-cow-horse persona to buck; even at his ripe old age of 26

Wyoming Rock Art

The specific meanings of the images seem less important to me than the awareness of humans passing through and leaving symbols of their passing

People of the Past

I wasn’t looking for artifacts, I was just hiking along an old Wyoming two-track. Finding flakes and flake tools was not a surprise: artifacts are scattered all across the high plains of Wyoming, sometimes in surprising density, and sometimes, like this time, a single deposit. Medicine Lodge, a site in northern Wyoming, has been inhabited…

A Few Grey Hairs

Yes, he has a few grey hairs on his muzzle, but his eyes are just as keen as ever. He’s chased cattle and gathered sheep and has been my constant companion of late. He can’t speak, but he can talk. He talks with his eyes, or with his ears, and he’s been known to tap…