Quiet Haunt - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

"...But I wish that fate had left me free

To wander these quiet haunts with thee,
Till the eating cares of earth should depart,

And the peace of the scene pass into my heart..."

- from Green River by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Coleus And Golden Highlights - Missoula, Montana

 "...Cypress glory, bright, 

Embedded images hushed. 

Country houses, peasants, cows,

Smitten.  His soul crushed. 

Chestnut trees.  And coleus. 

Perfected by sorrows eyes. 

Lilac bushes.  Irises. 

Still Van Gogh's soul cries..."

- from Vincent Van Gogh By Dane Smith-Johnsen

A Good Day For Ice Cream - Missoula, Montana

Today's Sweet Peaks' flavour: DOMA Espresso....perfect on a Sunday afternoon...but probably the last ice cream of the season....sniff!

Pending Motion - Missoula, Montana

"So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. 

And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. 

And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone."

-Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

High-Flying Imaginings - Missoula, Montana

"We all face daily choices of what TV shows and movies to watch, where to surf on the web, and what pictures to settle our gaze on….So choose your images with the long view of building a righteous imagination."

- from Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind by Gene Veith and Matthew Ristuccia

Everything Is Awesome! - Missoula, Montana

"The instructions to fit in, have everybody like you, and always be happy! 

Step one; breathe....

Step two; greet today’s smile and say…Good morning, city!"

-Emmet Brickowoski in The Lego Movie

Haystack - Missoula, Montana

"...The word agriculture, after all ... means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. " (pg. 285, The Use of Energy)

- Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essayst

Construction Zone - Missoula, Montana

"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."

- Billy Graham