Fleeting Iced Shadows - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

“The present is the ever moving shadow 

     that divides yesterday from tomorrow. 

  In that lies hope.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

A Different Angle - Missoula, Montana

"I stand in the hallway and listen to her and Etta laughing and realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable.  
How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou?

Sometimes what we don't get in life makes way for something even better."

-from Milk Glass Moon, A Big Stone Gap Novel, by Adriana Trigiani, p. 162
(Did I mention previously that her series are delightfully addicting?)