Really Smoky - Near Philipsburg, Montana

"A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist."

-Colonel Henrique Martens, in The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal, p. 291

In reality, it's really smoky in most of Montana.

BUT they say rain - or even perhaps a freeze, with snow in the mountains! - is coming yet this week. Hurrah!

(Yes, we are excited about early frost; somewhat sad, but true.)