The cave -- Variations on the horizontal -- In the dream I am -- Taphonomy -- Lake Florissant -- At Scott's Bluff, Nebraska -- Imagining the journey west -- Virginia Rail -- The door -- Prairie Hills in snow -- North -- The Hudson River School -- Depth image -- Within the bright potential -- As it happens this morning -- Archetypal light -- Southerly -- Bicycling in the Great Salt Marsh -- Form and theory -- Catastrophism -- Triptych: jump studies -- The labrador duck -- Corduroy Road -- The route -- Blackjack -- The work -- American Dipper -- Jim Bachae's new hip -- Parietal -- Aesthetics and necessity -- Western Grebe in mountain light -- Northwest Passage -- Into these places -- Fauve -- Slow air -- The blue of the mussel shell.