Hilltop Cattle - Near Livingston, Montana

“The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.”  - Noam Chomsky 

(Nothing AT ALL to do with these black cattle just enjoying the big sky view...)

8:13 PM Mountain Time - Missoula, Montana

Similar Saturday evening views will be available well into August along the Waterworks Trail system above Missoula, MT. 
Self-serve, while they last!

Clouds On Purpose - Missoula, Montana

Rain, glorious rain! - after days and days of cloudy skies and not watering the lawn because it OUGHT to rain...finally the clouds have found their purpose. (Which I know is much more than simultaneously saving our lawn and water bill, but aren't we the fortunate ones?!)

"I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand."

 - Shannon L. Alders

Fenceline, Shelby, Montana

"Three long days of dust behind him, 
at least that many more to go. 
His job it is to ride the fences, 

to bend the wire and mend the posts...

Another sunrise finds him mounted 
ready to begin the day. For now the sun 
is at his back, no wind or rain to cloud 

their way. 

He loses count of what he mended on his 
journey east to west. He knows the 
corner post will greet him; three more 

lines until they rest."

From  "Riding Fences" by Alexander Beebe

Boundary Stones, Missoula, Montana

"I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved." 
- Annie Leibovitz, Photographer