Description
It was late morning in Yellowstone National Park and I was headed back to the hotel to rest before going out again in the late after. I looked up into a douglas fir tree and immediately spotted two Great Horned Owl chicks screaming, “Feed me, feed me.” It took a while, but I finally found Mama perched on a different branch. Her body language said everything. In that moment, she reminded me of the Highwomen song, “My Name Can’t Be Mama Today”, the universal mood of a tired parent taking exactly one emotional step back.
This photograph captures that hilarious, all-too-relatable pause in parenting: the brief illusion that if you don’t turn around, you don’t have to answer. Even in the wilds of Yellowstone, moms sometimes need a minute.
