April 11, 2006

Better and better

photo by Anne Rohrer

Prairie Dawn, by Anne Rohrer

It’s been far too long since I’ve reminded all of us to go visit Anne’s place. The woman is one of the most talented photographers I know, and her skill and artistry just keep increasing. I can’t look at her work without yearning for the Northern Rockies. Go look.

(I hope it’s OK, Anne, that I’ve posted a low-res version of one of your pieces here: I figure it’ll make sure a few hundred people visit your site.)

Update: Reader Steve F. emails a quibble, posted here with his permission:

Hi Chris.  Love your blog.  And Anne Rohrer’s photos.  Hate for my first comment to be a quibble, but here it is.  The “Northern Rockies” are in Alberta and British Columbia.  Montana and Yellowstone (Anne’s bailiwick, I think) would sensibly be known as the “Central Rockies,” at least to people living there who know about Canada. 

I’m not calling you out for something I think you don’t know.  You certainly seem like you like to get things like this right.  That is, minor slips of rhetoric with geopolitical implications.  Like, calling the United States “North America” as many folks do without asking Mexico or Canada about that, etc.

Steve F.

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aaah yes the geographical imperative.  Well i look out my window above my computer and off in the distance to the northeast, between two large 1880’s mansions, i see the Rocky Mountains of the panhandle of Idaho.  Depending upon one’s prediliction to the lexicon of patriotism, some round here call them the northern Rockies, and some just the Rockies, but most folk relate to them by their regional nomenclatures: Kootenai, Selkirks, Cabinets, Bitterroots, Clearwaters, and so forth.  There are those of us who don’t quibble because we are working long and hard to create the Yellowstone to Yukon corridor, and that is a contiguous unit of mountains and mountain valleys that are part of the continental Rockies.

...go spyder!
chris, of course i don’t mind...i’m really pleased and surprised. thank you, i’m honored.

That photo got me to go over.  I’m so glad I did.  She had a nice close-up of a redwing blackbird, which is one of my favorite birds.  Her work is really amazing.  Thanks for sharing the link.

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