Little things.

The morning I planned to leave Alpine Wyoming I awoke to thunder and rain. The alarm began to ring at 6 am which I promptly snatched out of the tent pocket and squeezed and pressed every button until something I did made it quit. I laid there in my tent dozing, listening to thunder roll through the greys river range, listening to raindrops slap against the nylon roof. In a half cognizant morning daze I played in my head the scene of me catching the horses and packing and saddling up. I could feel the augury of mud clumps stuck to my boots as I scurried around in the corrals and in my camp fetching my things. And I could feel the dampness of wet jeans in the saddle and then the misery as they dry, or never quite dry out against your skin. Needless to say I opted out. I closed my eyes and fell back asleep. If I have learned anything yet about horse travel it's that time barely exists except for when it does and when it does you just have to be more clever, more flexible or at least half drunk and then it barely exists because it barely matters. I decided I would leave the next day. When finally I did rise it was still storming outside. It was the first time I was able to stay in my tent past 8am because the sun was drowned out behind the rain soaked cumulous clouds. I was as happy as a kid in a fort to have the "minibus" (the name of my tent), as my private universe. After organizing my piles of clothes and books and random gear I pulled a jacket on and wrenched up my cowboy boots and ran out into the rain to grab the camp stove and the coffee. I made coffee in the vestbule of the"minibus" and began to take pictures of the little things in my world. Before I left Colorado I found a blog called "iphoneography" and was really inspired by what some of the photographers were able to do with their iPhone cameras. Advertised on the blog was a wide angle/ macro lens for an iPhone. I ordered one and most of the photos below are my rainy day photo experiments as I waited for a storm to pass.



rain on a plastic window


raindrops on the door, the world out there



clouds you could catch



wet boots


a lucky one


seeds


this is what's showing on the big screen in the "minibus" on a rainy day





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