Today while walking over this water through way, I watched a Water Ouzel rest for a brief moment. The odd way the ouzel was splashing around made me wonder if it was young or if maybe it was trying to draw my attention away from a nest. The warm weather is unleashing the snow melt. …
When it was colder and we had so much snow I didn’t see many tracks. Now there are lots more critters moving around. The deer have to work hard to get through the snow. I am not sure what made these tracks. Occasionally we get some Elk in the area so maybe one came through. …
This last week in Montana has been cold enough that I didn’t want to bare my fingers very often so — I don’t have many new photographs. I shot these magpies through the window and then played around with the shapes and grainy nature of the image. The coldest ski day since my last post …
It has been ten days since my last field note. The landscape near my home in Northwest Montana had so many variations over that period of time. As I skied along an irrigation ditch (above) with my camera I experienced the daily transitions. The snow melted out of the trees a couple days after the …
This last week we have had just enough snow to ski. Today it has been raining so I will probably be walking rather than skiing when I go out this afternoon. In early January, before it started warming up, the winter sun gave a silver sheen to the lines in the irrigation ditch ice. Recently …
The snow has mostly melted off except for in the more shaded places where I walk. The irrigation ditch holds reflections of early winter in slow movement. Today I was drawn to a favorite red-orange rock, reflected blue sky and water plants blended by the flow of Big Knife Creek. I was drawn to the …
Today there is sun. Flickers fly back and forth from the house eaves. I am not sure what they are eating. Snow has melted at our elevation. The bare branches of late fall bring a different architecture of light to the landscape. Yesterday I walked along Big Knife Creek. The bright colors are gone …
Looking Toward the Mission Mountains this Morning We have snow. Today on my walk it was 22 degrees. It seems quieter in the woods with the muffle of voluminous white. Jordy the Samoyed seems less white and smaller. The trees seem taller. Jordy really, really likes the snow. Before the snow it rained and rained, …
It is the day after solstice – I am missing the sol/sun with more rain today. The heavy-headed Peonies bend toward the ground. The waters bring stories. Someone spotted a grizzly swept up in the Augusta flood waters. https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2018/06/20/montana-flooding-grizzly-bear-spotted-swimming-through-augusta/719737002/ The days have been filled with rain, hail and new snow in the mountains with occasional …
(Columbia Spotted Frog in a puddle on the irrigation ditch road) http://fieldguide.mt.gov/displaySpecies.aspx?family=Ranidae 6/1/18 We had over an inch of rain in the last twenty-four hours – with more falling as I write. (https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/montana/weather-radar-24hr The steady sounds of the water falling from the sky reminded me of living in Southeast Alaska when I was young. In …
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