Fall Throwback - Haystacked - W. US Hwy 12 Near Helena, Montana

"People who think it’s so hard to find a needle in a haystack are probably not quilters. Needles find you. Just walk on the haystack for a second. You’ll find the needle." -Jenny Lawson in Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Haystack - Missoula, Montana

"...The word agriculture, after all ... means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. " (pg. 285, The Use of Energy)

- Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essayst

Windswept Wideness - South of Anaconda, Montana

"Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it." - Ivan Doig, 'English Creek'

Wheel of Time, Missoula, Montana

This weathered wagon wheel probably pulled its fair share in many a season of haying on the ranch. Click here for the story on some other historical wheels that recently surfaced in the Blackfoot River near Missoula, Montana.