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El esqueleto.

Scenes from Waterfall Trail, at White Tank Mountain Regional Park in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Whitetank petroglyphs.

Museum Day 2019: Hundreds of participating museums throughout the U.S. are offering free admission on September 21. Click here to find a museum near you and get free tickets.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

Don DeLillo, in White Noise, 1984.

Digger Leaning on His Spade, Pierre Millet, 1874, woodcut on cream laid paper. From the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I’m inhabiting a space somewhere between effort and ease this week. I’ll post new photos again when I am able.

Pigeon Forge Pottery owls, ca. 1965.

Beginning in the early 1960′s, any of my family travelling in the Smokies felt compelled to stop at Pigeon Forge Pottery and buy an owl figurine (or two) for the unfortunates who were left at home. This was before that charming mountain town was made crass and commercial and excessive by Dolly Parton and the outlet malls and the chain restaurants.

There are so many Pigeon Forge owls belonging to various family members it’s hard to keep up with them all.

The figurine at top was my mother’s, probably a gift from my Aunt Helen, and I know the figurine at bottom was a gift to me from my mother, which I’ve since passed on to my daughter.

Both figurines were mold made. The owl at top is inscribed Pigeon Forge Pottery, and signed by the founder Douglas Ferguson. The original price, $4.50, is still marked in pencil on the bottom.

Senior portrait.

Untitled.

Watcher.

Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) in a cottonwood tree (Populus fremontii), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.