Canoeing on Good Friday, we (the patient sternsman pictured and I) passed, then stopped to take a look at, this cow skeleton on the riverbank, surprisingly cohesive after storms, floods, scavengers. We (I) took photos that day of many living things, mostly turtles and ducks, but we (I) liked these photos best, less for the dead cow in them and more for the utter stillness of the place.

Once a turtle counter, always a...

Took a photo this week while walking to Florence, and then couldn't help but sneak up on my unsuspecting subject, paparazzi-style, to get another shot.

Then, camera already out, I took a photo of a tree (that I deemed not interesting enough even for blogdom) and a gate (mostly for the sunpath around it, not the gate itself) on the way back.