“I must go where the wild goose goes”
Posted in Canadian goose, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Canadian geese on January 31, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Well…. maybe not today!
Archive for January, 2008
Thinking of June
Posted in Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on January 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Mid winter is what memory and photographs are for. I can close my eyes and feel the cool breeze that was blowing across the top of the peak when I took this photo on June 21, 2007.
(Photo of the peaks of the Cherry Peak roadless area, taken from the top of Sunset Peak, just above [...]
Another contrast
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, tagged Big Hole Lookout on January 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Someone started up a new gym in the little town near here and I have to chuckle every time I go by: they advertise that they have a treadmill.
I do too, but mine is so much better. It’s the high ridge you can see at the skyline in this photo. The monthly fee for using [...]
A contrast
Posted in Baldy Mountain roadless area, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Baldy Mountain roadless area on January 27, 2008 | 14 Comments »
In the middle of winter, while it’s nice to contemplate the beauty of all the snow and ice, it’s also enjoyable to occasionally reflect on what this cold world will be like once summer returns again.
The first two photos that follow were taken last Thursday, of Mount Baldy, a 7,464 foot high mountain near here [...]
Changing of the guard
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on January 26, 2008 | 16 Comments »
About fifteen years ago a wildfire swept through this area and, although it wasn’t an especially hot one, it killed a lot of trees. Once it was over, we did exactly the right thing to the area: we left it alone.
In her own time, nature will repair just about every catastrophe that strikes her wild [...]
It’s really quite warm out here in the cold!
Posted in Animals, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, White-tail deer, tagged whitetail deer on January 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Several days ago just before noon I checked the outdoor temperature from our sensor mounted in the shade of a big fir tree in the yard; 10ºF. A moment later I noticed that another thermometer mounted in the sun on the south side of our garage indicated 75ºF. An interesting contrast!
At this latitude, the winter [...]
Cold day in the neighborhood
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Clark Fork River on January 24, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Rail Link
Posted in Montana, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Rail Link, railroads on January 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
No, not coal train this time, cold train.
There aren’t any roads on that side of the river, just the rails. Long ago there used to be a passenger run through there about once a week and it was a beautiful trip
Winter on the Flathead
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Winter, tagged Flathead river, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Winter on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
About five miles before the Flathead river flows into the Clark Fork, there is a stretch of the river that I just have to visit when we get one of our brief periods of really cold weather. The air is clear and the sun is out, but the temperature is well below zero and [...]
“Not me!”
Posted in Birds, Canadian goose, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Canadian goose on January 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
