Posted in Animals, Beaver, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on May 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
After about a dozen casts, this evening’s fishing was interrupted by an old favorite visitor, a beaver. I enjoy watching beavers under any condition, but they’re especially fascinating when swimming in the open water of the river, where there are varying currents, rocks, pools, eddies; anything but smooth water. Beavers know how to negotiate all [...]
Posted in Beaver, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures on May 2, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Lately I’ve been thinking about an area of beaver dams not far from home and today decided to visit there. Because I didn’t go prepared to wade in water up to my waist (it‘s now well into the spring runoff), I wasn’t able to get to where I wanted. Instead, it turned our to be [...]
Posted in Animals, Beaver, Conservation, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on January 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Today, instead of going on my usual hike through the foothills, I chose to scramble for a few miles along the bank of the Clark Fork river and enjoy some of the winter scenery there, and in so doing walked right into the yard of the resident beaver.
Back in October I wrote a post “Overwhelmed?” [...]
Posted in Animals, Beaver, Inspiration, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures on October 2, 2006 | No Comments »
Once in awhile a task comes along that seems at the moment to be just way too big. Sometimes I get that feeling when going out after a load of firewood, knowing I will have to fall at least four 70-ft trees, saw them into 18 inch lengths and load about a ton and a [...]
