A Rainey Day in Bozeman-town

Thursday dawned with a steady rain but undaunted, we did our yoga class & returned to the apt. only slightly wet.

OK, a good day to catch up.  First some unfinished business.  Last night I forgot to provide a link to more background on the Lewis & Clark headwaters website (& with some clicking around, you can research the entire expedition).  The more I learn about L&C the more  extraordinary I find it.  Camping out in unknown territory for years, yeah...YEARS, to me that's amazing.

Here's the WEBSITE.

Back to Big Sky.  What we're learning is that it's the clouds that make the Big Sky.  They're always there (not like the cloudless blue of Arizona) and always changing, in a matter of minutes.  It can be dark & grey overhead but we see the sun shining on a distant range.  Yesterday we had the full range of sky...big clouds & grey clouds loaded with rain.

Here are some pics.

Note the car ahead, lower right below.  This is a two lane state highway, mostly deserted.  The speed limit is 70mph.

This one was so dark, most of the color was gone so I took the rest away and the clouds popped.

Rain is coming...

Here are some part sun, part shade photos.  There was a resort in Paradise Valley years ago called Mountain Shadows.  Well, that's what we see below.

The first one is the Gallatin River taken earlier this week.  Note the reddish stick with a reflector in the middle & on top.   That's the guide for the snow plows when the white stuff comes.

Not all of Montana is big sky.  Here are some pics that fall into the "other" category.

 This is the type of shot that I miss but jumps out at Susanne:

This one, taken in Deer Lodge, can only be entitled "Oooops!"






Also in Deer Lodge is the Montana State Prison, opened in 1871, closed in 1979 & now a museum.  It's a depressing place.  I'm going to save that for another post.

More uplifting and part of the prison museum is a fabulous car collection.  Later.  And an old west museum.  DL is a museum town.

The sun is showing signs of returning.  And I've got to do other things.

One last little thing.  There's a type of bird we see here that I've never seen before.  I posted the photo below to my Facebook page.  A lady from our tango community that lived in Bozeman identified it as a magpie.  Thank you, Niki!

Bye4now.