Captured Clouds - Missoula, Montana

I liked the echo image
of captured snow beneath wintry clouds
 - bearing more snow!

Unplugged Reflections - Clark Fork River Near East Missoula, Montana

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

-Anne Lamott, ch. 4 of Almost Everything

(& that is the entire chapter! 
Highly recommend this lovely little book...abundant fodder for rumination!)

On Joy - Near Simms, Montana

"That we are designed for joy is exhilarating, within reach, now or perhaps later today, after a nap, as long as we do not mistake excitement for joy. 
Joy is good cheer. My partner says joy and curiosity are the same thing. 
Joy is always a surprise, and often a decision.
Joy is portable. Joy is a habit, and these days, it can be a radical act."
-Anne Lamott, p. 70-71 of Almost Everything

On Light, Spirit,Hope - Marias River, MT-I-15, Near Shelby, Montana

"Light...illuminates both things we want to see and don't want to see....Light is energy you can't touch or corral, which is also the nature of spirit....Light, candles, full moons magnify spirit that is in the wings...." 
-Anne Lamott, p. 21 of Almost Everything

Chosen Road Behind - Hwy 200 Near Lincoln, Montana

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J.K. Rowling (as quoted on p. 46 of Measure What Matters by John Doerr)

Wishing you wise choices in the things that matter most. 

Simple Christmas - Missoula, Montana

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

― Bob Hope (1919-1997)

Wishing you a simple Christmas.... 
 

Big Sky With Clouds - Flying Into Missoula, Montana

20 degree F overnight upsurge put us about back at temps in late September when this photo was taken - there's a happy thought!

“And I urge you to please notice
 when you are happy, and exclaim
 or murmur
 or think at some point,
 ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
― Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man Without a Country

Clinging Stubbornly - Missoula, Montana

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” 
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son