Hour of Pearl - Missoula, Montana

A quote resembling these pearl-ish blossoms admired on a recent mid-evening neighborhood stroll: “It is the hour of pearl — the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.” - John Steinbeck (1902-1968), from Cannery Row

Hip Strip Sunset - Missoula, Montana

"...And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east."

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath