Uncomplicated Cottonwoods - Bitterroot Valley, Montana

"All the complicated details 
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!...."

-From  Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

River Reflections - Missoula, Montana

"Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering 

and subconscious dreams, thrills, fears.  People stare into... captivated, as they are 
when gazing into a fire. 
What is it that draws and holds us? 

The rivers' reflections of 
our lives and experiences are endless ..."-   From Lifelines, by Tim Palmer

This week, western Montana vacillates betwixt freeze and slightly less so, hence this lovely reflective sheen of water atop the brooding, moody ice.

Golden Glow - Missoula, Montana

Thursday night, snow flurried amidst the headlight crossfire during my evening homeward commute. 

By Friday lunchtime, we were again ensconced in this sunny - albeit intermittently so - golden glow. 

Such are the varied and fickle delights of autumn in western Montana. 

Shadow And Sunlight - Grant Creek - Missoula, Montana

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Wildweeds Bloom - Missoula, Montana

These wildweeds have progressively bloomed along my lunchtime walk route for the past couple of weeks. The float and shift of seeming whitecaps in a hovering-shimmer sea of anchored green stems draws the eye, compelling me to (finally!) stop for a photo.

Cottonwoods on the Clark Fork River, East Missoula, Montana

This time of year, the cottonwoods along the Clark Fork River bank get their feet a little wet, with a bonus mud soak.

Season Confluence, Hamilton, Montana

If you don’t mind climbing a fence, this a side road to the Daly Mansion grounds, just east of Hamilton, Montana. (Just for the record, it’s been a lot of years since I took this route.)

Sentinel of the Bosky Draw, Corvallis, Montana

Cottonwoods love to have their feet near water. We spied this bosky stand while walking along the road above a natural depression that features a seasonal pond, which will soon be filling up.
(Bosky - it's even fun to say.)