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

Mountain Days - South of Hot Springs, Montana

"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God."

- John Muir (1838–1914)

April-like May - Near Livingston, Montana

"By now it was April, fooler of a month. One day the weather would be what passed for spring at an elevation of a mile, and the next would feel as if it had come from Iceland." - Ivan Doig (1939-2015), "Sweet Thunder", p. 12