March 27, 2002

• A day and a half after having been solicited for a blowjob in a rest area, I found myself in Medicine Bow National Forest. It’s around I-80 in southeast Wyoming, just west of Laramie.
  
  There had been a snow storm the previous night. I drove through the weather pattern in Colorado, north on I-25 between about Pueblo through Denver. Anyway, the point is that it had snowed the night before. The locals (at least the ones on the radio) were saying how it was nice to get the one last snow of the spring.
  
  I’d been to the recreation area part of Medicine Bow before. I took a whole lot of pictures there, all of which were lost in a catastrophic hard drive failure a while back. Some were quite nice. So, since the sun was beginning to come out, and since there was snow, I stopped off again, digital camera in hand.
  
  The landscape was a lot like this. The picture gives the impression that there’s more snow on the ground than there actually is. It also shows you that low-flying snow clouds were zooming over my head; one minute it would be overcast like in the picture, and then it would be relatively clear and sunny.
  
  ..Like in this picture. I showed this to a friend and they said, ‘Nice pile of rocks.’ Of course it’s not a pile.
  
  I like to take pictures of little tiny absract things, such as these ice crystals, these tiny rocks with a tiny snowdrift, and this lichen that made me think of Mark Rothko.
  
  This tree was attempting to preside over the proceedings. The sun was coming out, and the snow in the branches was melting, making it rain under the tree but no where else.
  
  I found this. It took my housemate a few tries to figure out what she was seeing. I told her to get closer to the monitor, to look more carefully, and she said, ‘All I see is some finger smudges on the glass…’ I can’t complain, though, because I tried to make it subtle, and I guess it worked.
  
  That last one and this one are my two favorites.
  
  I left Medicine Bow national forest and zoomed along the highway. I made it to just east of Boise, ID before sleeping in yet another rest area.
  

  • 11:00 am
  • 10 Comments