Springtime In The Rockies - Missoula, Montana

Last week in Missoula, MT: 70+ degrees Fahrenheit.

Earlier this week: Snow.

(I kid you not - you're looking at it right here!)

And that, my fine people, is the truth about springtime in the Rockies.

Wishing For Sky - Missoula, Montana

"All stories are love stories. 
Paul remembered someone famous saying that...All men get the things they love. 
The tragedy of some men is not that they are denied, but that they wish they'd loved something else."

-From The Last Days of Nightt by Graham Moore, p. 26

Pop Colour Clouds - Missoula, Montana

"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds."

 - Robert Bridges (1844-1930)

Blue Skies - Missoula, Montana

"Blue skies....smilin' at me..." from behind sun-whitened cotton candy wisps of cloud...

We are revelling in these perfect spring days while they last, knowing that more rain is in Western Montana's forecast.

"...Blue days...all of them gone...

Nothin' but blue skies from now on..."

Spring Kayaking - Brennan's Wave, Missoula, Montana

"I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water . . . has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river."

 -- Roderick Haig-Brown (1908-1976)

Soul Food aka Hyacinth - Missoula, Montana

"If thou of fortune be bereft, 
and in thy store there be but left 
two loaves, sell one, and with the 
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."

 - by John Greenleaf Whittier

Neighbourly Hyacinths - Missoula, Montana

Sharing is a thing in our neighbourhood. 
Among other things, we share fences, conversation, snow shovelling, the company of cats, and - this week - the  fragrant blooms of hyacinths, while they last.

Seriously Spring - Missoula, Montana

A fabulous evening for ice cream at Sweet Peaks! 
(Griz Tracks flavour for me - click here to make your mouth water. Their website indicates ice cream ships every Wednesday to anywhere in the lower 48 United States...just sayin'....)

Next up: a calorie off-setting stroll downtown along the Clark Fork River.

And after that, we finally had supper - legendary Mo Club burgers. 
The Best Husband Ever observed that they are cooking on the same grill as decades ago when his dad ate there as a young man, and the long-time seasoning of the grill contributes to the special taste of their burgers.

A veritable best-of-Missoula evening!