Nice Day - Stevensville, Montana

"Nice day
for a

white wedding."

- Billy Idol, from "White Wedding"

Driving up to the intersection above Tucker Crossing fishing access, the sky opened wide as I topped the rise, crisscrossing jet trails hinting at new adventures about to begin. Another glorious day awaits under the big Montana sky!

(Note: I was not actually fishing at the fishing access - this is not required. Good thing for me. But the "access" aspect is also useful for finding photo perspectives along the river.)

Summer Clouds In Motion - Missoula, Montana

"But maybe Leo felt the same shakiness 

when he made it back to Sandusky...And my father, too,

 when he brought me to the Galaxy that first time,

 to show me how to be humble about what we love.

The point is not that you get away from fear, but that 
you move along with it.
 You don't let it freeze you in place."

- from Midnight Bowling by Quinn Dalton

Townie Poppies Blooming - Missoula, Montana

"I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple."

- Lizzie Armitstead

Pebbles To Trod - Stevensville, Montana

"My life is full of mistakes. 
They're like pebbles that make a good road."

- Beatrice Wood (1893-1998)

Wild Rose Season - Stevensville, Montana

Meadowlarks provide 
the quintessential birdsong 
of spring;
wild roses supply 
its fragrance. 

View From The Edge - Near Lincoln, Montana

"Out on the edge you see 
all kinds of things you can't 
see from the centre. 
Big, undreamed-of things - the 
people on the edge see them 
first."

- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

Plain Intimacy - Near Shelby, Montana

"There was a sense of intimacy 

and exclusion about 

the vast, open plains 

that always 

made her feel at home."

- from The Spider's Web by Margaret Coel, page 218

(By the way, today's oil painting effect is courtesy of PicsArt.)

Skies Wide Open - Near Shelby, Montana

Ahh, the welcome-home expanse of Montana's sky!