Juxtaposition

Sometimes the photos I get off my camera surprise me. Or the way they roll off the memory card surprises me.

Take, for example, this late April day in which this:

Desert Bighorn Sheep skull/horns, l-o-n-g dead

and this:

First sunflowers of spring -- Stemless Woollybase

were discovered four feet apart on a ridge behind my house. As a park interpreter, I am trained to see themes. What am I supposed to infer, except that death and new life are intimately related?