A Western Classic

Eastern Oregon: I love horses, as so many people do.  But they are not a big part of life, even in the western states.  So it was a real pleasure to stumble onto this, on today's bike ride:

 (After popping the arrow twice, the viewer might want to click the rectangle on the black footer bar of the video to enlarge into  "theater mode.")  The immense 'sagebrush sea' (that starts down in southern Nevada) ends here.  The cowboy was only a mile from where the still-visible Oregon Trail exited the sagebrush sea.  Recall Nevada, a month or so ago:

 A morning rain shower was dissipating, so the sky was opening up into puffy cumulus clouds:

Meanwhile still photography is up to its old tricks -- that is, looking for soft hills and shadows:

There is nothing more classic-western than Indian Paintbrush, and there are plenty of them around, in eastern Oregon: