Bitterroot Ripples - Tucker Crossing, Stevensville, Montana

"Each time a [hu]man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

-Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)

Puff - MIssoula, Montana

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

- Saint Augustine (354-430)

Future Focused - Tucker Crossing, Stevensville, Montana

"We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims."

-Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Quoted in Ch. 66 Heading of The Last Days Of Night by Graham Moore

Tucker Crossing Calming View - Stevensville, Montana

"If there is magic on this planet,
 it is contained in water."

 -- Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)

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)