Posts from the ‘Nature’ category

Headed South

If you were paying attention when you read “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” you will remember that there is easier flying close to the water. These Canada geese were zipping along – maybe wishing they had left a month sooner!

Photo taken 10/29/2009

Night light: “For the weary”

The steeper the ridgeline
The hotter the sunshine
The sweeter the alpenglow*

It’s a long way over this mountain
A long long way to climb

There’s a song that I must keep singing
It’s a prayer and it moves me through time

The things that will hurt you
The ones that desert you
They’ll help you more than you’ll ever know*

The steeper the ridgeline
The hotter the sunshine
The sweeter the alpenglow

The more the resistance
The greater the distance
The sweeter the alpenglow*

*Lyrics from “For the weary” written by Allison Sattinger, Sunny Rising Music Allison’s Steady Heart CD

Photos taken 10/24/2009, 6:10-6:30 p.m. Sunset was approximately 6:27.

What Karl and I saw

Karl and I took a run to town for supplies – solo – the man is hunting in Eastern MT…actually – chaperoning a youth group hunt.

On the way for supplies, I stopped at the dump and the road out of the dump provided a bit of Fall flavor.

I’ve shot from here before.

From the same spot, but to the West – a snow squall moves south with a bit of sun showing the golden larch in front of the squall.

That’s what Karl and I saw.

A little color and more to come

The early, very cold (to 8F) temperatures we had a week or so ago did a number on our Fall color. The leaves of the deciduous trees that were in the process of turning mostly shrivelled up and started falling off. That red-brown tree is a birch or aspen and not normally as red as that. At any rate, it is different this year.

But the larch pine, they are getting ready for their show of gold. They are mostly turning to chartreuse, with hints of the gold they will eventually be.

Today, a little color, but there is more to come!