Stage Set Up - Mother Lode Theatre, Butte, Montana

Balcony view of the band stage setup for 406 shows off some of the many gorgeous lines and 1923 design details in Butte, Montana’s historic Mother Lode Theatre. (Click here to see ceiling detail at top of photo.)

Done Trucking, Missoula, Montana

Imagine the stories this old truck could tell from back when a two-digit phone number connected you to your rural Montana neighbors. The times, they are still a-changing; the state’s timber industry is vastly altered, and the roads this rig delivered lumber along are long since widened and paved. But Montana’s big sky is still covers the single 406 area code.

Leaded - Is There Any Other Kind?, Corvallis, Montana

Today’s pic is dedicated to that redoubtable leaded coffee drinker, Tom Nash (aka The Best Husband Ever).
Thanks for making sure there's always morning coffee, sweetie.
(For a guaranteed Tom Nash sighting, stop in tonight at The Sunrise; he's playing with the other boys in country band 406.)
 
Plenty of downtown Missoula, MT, coffee shops will be open late to host First Night performers and attendees. What else besides good strong coffee is needed to keep you up ‘til midnight and welcome in the New Year? 

Happy 2014!