Slow Traveling Snail - Missoula, Montana

“…James gave a huffle of a snail in danger

And nobody heard him at all…” 

– from The Four Friends by A.A. Milne

Click here to read the whole poem about James' travels and his three friends, plus a bonus Christmas poem by A. A. Milne.

Findings of The Un-Bored - Missoula, Montana

"I decided a proper lady must be someone with a high tolerance for boredom and that was enough for me. I was a snake-and-polliwog chaser.. And general bog-dweller...I suppose you become what you continue to be without even knowing it...here I am...still pulling things from the ground." 
- Audrey Williams, fictional 1950s archaeologist, in 'Painted Horses' by Malcolm Brooks

Wayside Humble, Missoula, Montana,

"But to the spirit which has stripped off for a moment its own idle temporal standards, the grass is an everlasting forest, with dragons for denizens; the stones of the road are as incredible mountains piled one upon the other; the dandelions are like gigantic bonfires illuminating the lands around; and the heath-bells on their stalks are like planets hung in heaven higher than the other." - G.K. Chesterton, "A Defence of Humilities," The Defendant

Five Feet High and Rising, Missoula, Montana

A photo can be worth a thousand words; this one might even inspire some words for a sing-along : “How high’s the water, Mama? …” And all the while lazily drifting beneath the cottonwood shade, in a flat-bottom boat.
My niece and I capped off our Sunday afternoon date by finding the end of a road labeled “No Outlet”. She’d heard it wound up at the river, looking across to Lolo, Montana, ten highway miles south of Missoula. Lo, and behold, she heard right.

Frozen Angles, Bitterroot River, Corvallis, Montana

After the balmy spring-caliber day we had Sunday, this setting is most likely a small pond now.
And the ice fishing season will prob’ly wind down in a hurry. But you can prolong the winter joy by listening here to this funny 80's song re-make posted last week by the Montana Outdoor Radio Show.