Red Rock Wayside

Finally made it to Red Rock Wildlife Refuge this fall. I took more beauty in my head than I photographed....

Loom

Martinsdale reservoir at my back, this antelope herd was framed with clouds...

Suspended

Meant to post this in October...such a great, crazy sky in the Shields Valley, across from the Cottonwood Reservoir this day.

Up and Over

Dead End Blur

Stories of Pie

More Pie

Barely There

And Then There Were Two

Old Power

Southbound

Uno Bayo

Festering Light

Two Posts

Lines and Cranes

Finally found an early morning field of cranes. Fall is upon us...

Crowded Light

Voyeur

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Early

Wild Goose Island

There is a Montana legend about this island situated between two shores on St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park about two tribes that lived on either side that avoided eachother. One day, a warrior saw a maiden from the other side. Both swam across and were instantly smitten, and they fell in love. Neither tribe was happy with the connection, but the Great Spirit was watching and transformed them into geese so they could fly away from their pursuers. When the warriors arrived on the island, what they saw were two geese walking on the island and took flight, never to return.

Pelicans

I've never spotted Pelicans on a pond before today, here in Montana. I've only seen them on the river. They were feeding in sync, and it was hard to catch all of them with their large pouched bills actually out of the water. This pond was alive with the sound of the yellow-headed blackbird narrating the soundtrack of this beautiful scene...

Phenology

A blade of dry grass unintentionally defined the cycle in this frame...

See Through

Two-Headed Cow

Sun Dog

Sweet sunset coming off Old Clyde Park road tonight, along with a nice sun dog.

Over My Head

In My Head

I was able to experience the spring migration again this year at Freezout Lake. The beauty in numbers never ceases to amaze me...

Ode to Hazel, 1999-2011

Eagle Watching

Whether to Weather

Bottleneck

Temp was -10, wind chill negative plus that when I took this photo down the street from my house yesterday. Each bird on it's own mission to find warmth, sweet patterns driven through the ice.

Shields Valley Sunset

Merlin in Town

Up the road from my house, I watched this bird from many angles today, just to get my identification right. She was puffed up with appropriate temperatures and observed her scope of songbirds and pigeons in the vicinity for food during snowfall.