What is simple beauty? The speed limit through this wildlife refuge is 30. People drive 40. 45. Only slowing down for the most dramatic beauty.

Some go slower, but go the wrong way on a one way loop, and miss the beauty all together in the panic. And meanwhile others, too distracted to see any beauty, spend it all looking down at their phone for directions back to the interstate, or checking to see if someone liked their snapshot of the bison #socolorado

Is simple beauty slow? Only seen when slowing down? Is simple beauty uncluttered? Clean? Simply, simple? A bison in a wide open landscape, unbothered by the rapid flow of modern viewers. Grass the color of fall glowing in the one ray of afternoon sun. A tree, not alone, but certainly independent, beckoning primal safety, as it stands sentinel against the modern rush that is complicating beauty.