Vacancy - The Wells Hotel, Garnet, Montana

"...If these old fashioned window panes were eyes
I guess they would have seen it all
Each little tear and sigh and footfall
And every dream that we came to seek or followed after..."

- from "If These Walls Could Speak" by Amy Grant

Vacancy, Missouri Headwaters State Park, Three Forks, Montana

The Missouri Headwaters State Park is a great place to stop and stretch your legs on the drive between Livingston and Missoula, Montana. In addition to vast windswept scenery, the trail provides bonus history lessons. What you see is all that’s left of the ambitious but relatively short-lived Gallatin City Hotel and the Akin Barn (far right). According to a fellow walker who’s been trekking the area for a lot of years, the roof framing only deteriorated in the last five years.

Vacancy - Empty Nest at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge, Stevensville, Montana

Spring can't make up its mind about coming to the Bitterroot Valley, but there are plenty of birds already performing their spring arias at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge.