winter blah....

one of the bad things about living in montana is that you have to deal with winter several months of the year. it isn't always bad, snow is beautiful and when snow covers everything, it can be really amazing. plus, it is often very sunny here, which helps everything seem better. but this post isn't about the good and bad things of montana living....

the bad part of winter is the grey days, the days where the sun doesn't want to come out and you don't feel like it will ever come out again (but it will, in a couple hours even!)

last month i went out (on one of those grey, yucky days) and about with my camera and took a couple shots that i thought i'd share.

this is just some dead flower that i thought just looked cool. it was really cold and windy that day, with no sun, not a great time to be outside taking pics, but i tried. i do like that i got the background completely out of focus, so that there is nothing distracting from the dead flower....

so, it was very snowy that day (the snow hadn't melted yet) and as i was driving around, i saw this:
i'm not sure what it is, i call it 'red cup, white snow'. i like to imagine how it got there (did the wind just blow it there? was there a party and this is a leftover cup? did some crazy, fit-throwing kid toss it out the window of his/her parents car?) i also think it is weird how much trash you can find when out in nature. sure, i probably should have picked this up, but i liked it too much. it kind of reminds me of those paintings that are just a giant canvas with one red square on it, you know, the kind that hangs in high end galleries and sells for more money than i will ever make. i just hope that someone else saw it and thought, even for a second, that it was beautiful and not just trash....