Unplugged Reflections - Clark Fork River Near East Missoula, Montana

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

-Anne Lamott, ch. 4 of Almost Everything

(& that is the entire chapter! 
Highly recommend this lovely little book...abundant fodder for rumination!)

River Rush - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

"I grew up in this town, 
my poetry was born 
between the hill and the river, 
it took its voice from the rain, 
and like the timber, 
it steeped itself in the forests."

- Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Sky Post-Sorrow - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

"If it were possible to render sorrow, it would look like a November gale.

But, then like sorrow, it too passed and the new day arrived almost impossibly clear and bright, the sky a perfect blue."

- from A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny, page 14


Tucked away as they are, the villagers in Louise Penny's fictional Three Pines community probably are not burdened with rampant power lines cluttering their views. But then, neither do they enjoy the compensation of Montana's ever-splendid sky. (And not just because they are, after all, fictional characters, natch!)

River Ice, Hamilton, Montana

A juxtaposition of river ice and sunshine made for a beautiful shoreline ramble along the Bitterroot River.