Mission Mountain Windbreak - St. Ignatius, Montana

"...Where strong land winds are of frequent occurrence, a windbreak is clearly advisable..."

- from The Canadian Horticulturist, Volume 23, February 1900

Treetop Silhouettes- South of Hot Springs, Montana

"Blue sky, golden cloud ...
What a feeling of forever!
The languid tree-tops
lithely remain mysterious.
A sign, you would think..."

-  Alberto Blanco, from "First Star", page 83 of 

Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco

Aspen Gateway, Missoula, Montana,

All day and night, save winter, every weather,
Above the inn, the smithy and the shop,
The aspens at the cross-roads talk together
Of rain, until their last leaves fall from the top.

From "Aspens" by Edward Thomas
(read the full poem here)

Shadow and Light Reflections, Missoula, Montana

"My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun..."
 from "Binsey Poplars" by Gerard Manley Hopkins