Time’s Convert - Near St. Regis, Montana

“Time makes more converts than reason.” 

–Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Spring Greens - Near St. Regis, Montana

Such gorgeous greeny greens all along today’s drive route to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho ! I don’t know how I’ve never seen this before, but the new needles on tamarack pines (that turn vibrant yellow and lose their needles in fall) spring out in electric bright green. Grateful to be out under the big sky on such a zesty day!

Layered Greens and Blues - Near St. Regis, Montana

"Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing." - N. T. Wright

August Already - St. Regis, Montana

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Pines a la Sunlight - West of St. Regis, Montana

As much as I relish calming grain land views that pull your worries out and away to the far horizon, multiple hours driving through eastern Washington was enough to last me a while, & I was glad to see Montana's tall and greening pines again.