Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on August 31, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Looks pretty enough: who’d know it’s poisonous? Tanacetum vulgare
It’s also non-native, having come from Europe. Now, exactly how this one made it all the way to the high ridge near the top of Patrick’s Knob is a mystery to me!
Posted in Autumn, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures on August 30, 2007 | 12 Comments »
The leaves are beginning to turn color already in the high country of Western Montana. These photos were taken just over a ridge north of the Patrick’s Knob roadless area where the color change seems to be more advanced than in most other areas. Lots of reds and oranges, but the yellows haven’t really started [...]
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area on August 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In the wild setting of the East slope of Bighole Peak, spending six hours on the trail is well worthwhile, at least for me.
My companion to the East was my old friend Mount Baldy:
To the Northeast and across a small valley was the one hundred and fifty square miles of the Chippy Creek fire. [...]
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area on August 28, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Trail 345W is a U.S. Forest Service primitive foot trail which runs from the point where U.S.F.S. road 887 crosses the Weeksville Divide, follows up the divide itself to just below the old lookout atop Bighole Peak, a distance of four to five miles with an increase in altitude of about two thousand feet. It [...]
Posted in Autumn, Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area on August 28, 2007 | 11 Comments »
The colors of fall are just beginning to show now in Montana’s high country. Reds are getting an early start.
(Photo taken along F.S. Trail 345 near the top of Bighole Peak in the Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana. Mount Baldy in the background.)
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Across a canyon from the blackened mountain sides of the Chippy Creek fire scene, and four thousand feet up the other side this leaf garden is going through a normal season’s change of colors. Life goes on as usual in the wild country.
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Forest fires, McGregor - Thompson roadless area, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
At one hundred thousand acres, it looks like this fire will not grow larger now, but inside the perimeter some of it will probably continue to burn until the snow comes.
The southwest corner from five miles away:
The northeast corner from twenty+ miles away:
These last two large plumes of smoke are over fifteen miles apart, and [...]
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Sunsets on August 23, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on August 22, 2007 | 14 Comments »
The smoke from wildfires often paints landscapes, sometimes in pastels.
Posted in Clouds, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on August 21, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Finally, a little relief from the heat and desert-like humidity. It was only a little rain, but with it came cooler temperatures and beautiful clouds. A peaceful, although likely short, break from the fires.
Raindrops on wildflowers:
Clouds with windows:
Clouds above, clouds below:
How pleasant it is to know that those are real clouds for a change and [...]
