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“My mother brought this up in the first week after my father passed away. In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The day...

This hill is bigger than it looks at first glance - kind of like "objects in mirror are closer than they appear". If you zoom ...

Alas, visiting Sister #3 has hied herself home - just ahead of the worsening wildfire smoke infiltrating the Bitterroot valley. Thankfull...

"... Therefore the storm-wind shall his comrade be, That strips the hills and sweeps the cowering plains. October, shot with flashing...

"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoymen...

"T he sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain,...

“Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.  While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.  Freezy breeze made these three trees fre...

"...Mountain people are straight and natural,  minds level though the road is rugged. Long wind drives pine and cypress trees,  sk...

Descending, these hills appear steeper than in this from-below view, and brought to mind a scene from the movie, The Princess Bride : Tumbl...

“As I follow the fence line, I am carried even further back in time to when perhaps my great grandfather, or more likely, my grandfather...

“Sometimes, lying out on Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt‘s back lawn, it‘d felt as if I could stretch out my arms and my fingertips and rake them ...

End-of-summer sunshine makes for perfect hiking in Western Montana‘s forests.  Well, perfect aside from the need to beware of bears ...

Thing I Love About Missoula #137 : You truly never know what you’ll see around the next bend.   I’ve heard ("herd" - hah!)...

“FAINT winds, and a song fading and leaves falling, Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the field...

“The landscape was tidy and bare...Nothing had begun to grow yet in the waiting country side.... It was going to be all right. This was w...

“The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of...

Moving from rural Alberta to rural Montana, I expected things would be much the same. But I learned that Montana is unique from its neighb...