Bridge of Sanders County - Plains, Montana

"There aren't too many principles
 of proper business conduct 
with which just about everybody will agree. 

Two come to mind: 

1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 

2. Don't burn bridges."

- Dale Dauten

Reflection - Rainbow Lake, Montana

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

Treetop Silhouettes- South of Hot Springs, Montana

"Blue sky, golden cloud ...
What a feeling of forever!
The languid tree-tops
lithely remain mysterious.
A sign, you would think..."

-  Alberto Blanco, from "First Star", page 83 of 

Dawn of the Senses: Selected Poems of Alberto Blanco

Mountain Days - South of Hot Springs, Montana

"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God."

- John Muir (1838–1914)

Words of God - Missoula, Montana

"Rocks and waters...are words of God, and so are men. 
We all flow from one fountain Soul."

- John Muir (1838-1914)

March Marching On - Missoula, Montana

March in Montana means daffodils strive impatiently to bloom

 while humans still need a toque on lunchtime walks. 

(Well, at least those of us with Tinkerbell haircuts casting faerie ears out into the blustery March winds.)

Hope Blooms - Missoula, Montana

"Black and white are the colors of photography. 
To me they symbolize the alternatives
 of hope and despair
 to which mankind is forever subjected." 

- Robert Frank

Beautiful Frailty - Missoula, Montana

"He did not want to be whitewashed or excused....Whitewash brought no comfort.

The real comfort was to have one's sins and weaknesses not explained away but understood and shared.

...It struck him that it can be as much by our weakness as by our virtue that we can serve each other."

-from The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984), page 337