Blue and green continue to often be the primary colors. ( Summer of Blue and Green , Sky Blue and Grass Green )
From last evening’s walk…
But this morning, from the end of the driveway, the firey colors of another beautiful sunrise.
Montana primary colors.
taken last evening – I just like it. …tried to think of a clever title and failed.
aka a “blast from the past”… September 2002, I put my Whitefish home for sale and moved into a furnished rental on Flathead Lake for the winter. The furnished lake rentals are very inexpensive through the winter – rent for a month is less than 1/2 of the summer weekly “cottage” rental price. It was an opportunity to leave my home furnished for sale appeal and try out Bigfork area as well as be “on” the lake for a wee bit. As it turned out, it was a glorious late summer/early fall and the boys and I got to enjoy our beach many afternoons.
All photos taken October 2002 with my Canon Digital Elph – a whopping 2.1 megapixels – circa early 2001. I was remembering that fall and the photos from that time – I want to try some Photoshop techniques on the photos of the boys near the water…to bring them out and blur the background. Fun for the future! – for now, these still jog the memory.
This morning, sitting at my desk – suddenly the color seemed to shoot up in the sky. I grabbed my camera…
Just as fast as it came – the vibrant color faded and disappeared.
…shocking pink!
Yesterday morning was heavily overcast. I have learned to take the camera no matter what. As we left the property and entered the adjacent land which opens to the full sky and mountain view, a vivid blue hole in the overcast appeared. In my head, I said “a blue hole” and it reminded me of “The Blue Hole” – an anomaly in Castalia, Ohio.
“The Blue Hole” was one of those things like “House of Mystery” or “the largest” whatever. In my memory, it was the only venue of that nature that we ever stopped to see when I was a child. “The Blue Hole” was a deep water thing – supposedly of some nature that made it impossible to determine the depth. Also, it apparently lacked oxygen in the water. My memory is of a very blue water hole, surrounded by a fence and about 50 feet in diameter. I remember leaning against the fence and peering into the depths.
The thing is, I think I remember stopping at “The Blue Hole” more than once…and I think we had to pay to see it. And now I wonder why, as we never stopped at any of the other oddity tourist things.
The clouds brought up the memories of “The Blue Hole” and I was forming the blog post in my head…thinking to get any current information and web site links that had more information than I could dredge up from memory. When I googled “The Blue Hole Ohio”, I had a small shock. A number of entries referred to the scam that was “The Blue Hole”. Other sites had explanations. Some links were blog entries as this will be – childhood memories from people my age. “The Blue Hole” as an “attraction” no longer exists…and, of course, it had oxygen in it!
So, “The Blue Hole” of my childhood is a bit of a mystery. But the experience remains and the memory of the vivid blue..the memories surfacing today as I looked at the “blue holes” in the overcast sky of northwest Montana.
Blue holes…a bit of a mystery.
Karl… Karl went to the “dentist” on Tuesday. As they (vet) do the cleaning with the pet under anesthetic, Karl had a few more things “done”…a small cyst removed from his eyelid, x-rays to check his hips and 4 year old TPLO surgery (Tibia Plateau Leveling Osteotomy – the current procedure to “fix” a torn ACL in large dogs which involves taking the leg apart, changing the angle of the tibia and putting it back together – yeah, yuck – but it did the trick!). All was well with everything but they shaved his eyelid to remove the cyst so he looks like he was on the wrong end of a punch in the face…
Yesterday, which was also gray, rainy, dreary – Karl spent most of the day sleeping off the remains of the anesthetic, but today looks to be 100% himself – discounting the goofy eye look…
What’s up with Bob???
here’s what…
Critters…