STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK

PHOTOS BY JOHN BOYDSTON

It may best sum up the year in Ketchum—a portrait of the giant crane looming over the Big Hole at Ketchum’s south end.

After years, the Big Hole is finally getting filled with construction beginning this past summer on a new hotel opposite the Kentwood Lodge and the Limelight Hotel. But the real work began this summer—just in time to play havoc with the detour created by Ketchum’s Main Street reconstruction.

Sun Valley photographer John Boydston managed to turn the looming crane into a work of art, set as it was against a splash of the Milky Way.

Other photographs in Boydston’s portfolio, shown in today’s New Year’s Day edition, present other scenes of living in the Wood River Valley—from a show of bird force at Silver Creek to John’s depiction of a young pup doing what young pups are doing all over the valley right now—frolicking in the snow.

Boydston captured this particular shot at the Warm Springs Preserve in Ketchum, or what Boydston calls “Yellowsnow National Park.”