Posted in Animals, Humor, Montana, Moose, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There’s a beautiful trout stream in western Montana called Rock Creek which flows along the east side of the Sapphire Mountains from its origin in the Anaconda Mountain Range on the Continental Divide until it joins the Clark Fork River roughly twenty miles east of Missoula.
Rock Creek used to be one of the truly “blue [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
6H2O + 6CO2 ——-> C6H12O6 + 6O2 (Photosynthesis), translated: six molecules of water plus six molecules of carbon dioxide produce one molecule of sugar plus six molecules of oxygen.
Oxygen is nice to have around, particularly for anyone interested in staying alive, but we don‘t produce it; plants do, especially trees.
We do produce carbon dioxide, the [...]
Posted in Hunting, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures, Reflections on March 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Slight wisps of steam lazily drifted above the river far below as it wound its way between the rocky canyon walls and steep forested slopes and hurried on toward the Pacific. Its deep pools looked like huge pieces of turquoise set in a tarnished silver band. It was a cold November day and a slight [...]
Posted in Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just off the south shoulder of snow-capped Thompson Peak in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana, an ice cold mountain spring gushes out from among the bright green alders, striking blue lupines and tall spring-time grasses and its water begins a long and tumultuous journey to the Pacific some five hundred miles to the west.
A [...]
Posted in Arizona, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Far above a canyon, high upon a ridge in the highlands of Arizona, stand the solitary bones of an ancient pine, respectfully buried there on a day hundreds of years past by Mother Nature Herself in a lonely grave gently dug in a blue expanse of sky and tenderly wrapped in a thin shroud woven [...]
Posted in Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on March 25, 2007 | No Comments »
The Flathead National Forest in Western Montana is now implementing a new forest access plan designating 797,000 acres (1245 square miles) for snowmobile use. (Flathead National Forest is immediately adjacent to Glacier National Park on its West and South sides. It contains 2.3 million acres or 3595 square miles.)
Despite this huge area designated for [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The mid-October morning is crisp and cold. Your jacket feels good, even though the front is now opened slightly to let in a little of the cool mountain air and your wool boot socks are comforting on your feet. You look down and see your tracks mingling with those of other wild things who have [...]
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Photography, Photos, Pictures on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The Pussywillow is always the first sign of Spring in western Montana.
The Aspen, one of the favorite foods of the Ruffed Grouse, has its own version. These buds are much larger than those of the willows.
The wild country is starting to explode with spring colors and this little Yellow Bell gets a lot of mileage [...]
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Buttercups on March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
No one know why they’re here, but these toxic little plants just stand around and look pretty in the early spring. I know of no use for Buttercups, and I’ve had no luck at all transplanting them.
But I’m glad they‘re here!
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Photography, Photos, Pictures on March 18, 2007 | No Comments »
The crocus has welcomed us to spring for the last fourteen years here in our little canyon in western Montana.
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