Lone Snag, Sealy Lake, Montana

"NOT of all my eyes see, wandering on the world,

Is anything a milk to the mind so, so sighs deep

Poetry to it, as a tree whose boughs break in the sky.

Say it is ashboughs: whether on a December day and furled

Fast ór they in clammyish lashtender combs creep

Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high.

They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep

The smouldering enormous winter welkin!..."

- From "Ash-boughs", by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) 

Skate Tracks, Sealy Lake, Montana

Best Montana winter entertainment deal: $10 cross-country ski/boots/poles day rental from Bob Ward’s Sporting Goods. 

Even counting gas to drive an hour each way, and a small donation in the Nordic Ski Club box, it’s still beats going to the movies - not to mention it’s waaay healthier.