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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Day 282

Sunday, October 11, 2009

There is a marvelous gate just past Sapphire Village.  There might be an old single wide trailer with the wheels still on it up there, Who can tell. But I >>like<< the gate! (1/400, f8, 28mm, ISO 200) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 281: Counting Crows

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Near Sapphire Village… (1/1000, f8, 135mm, ISO 200) I counted 68.  How about you? Don’t forget to click on them a couple times before counting.  BACK to return! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 280 – End of an Era?

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Grain elevators litter the landscape in Eastern /\/\onTana!, but too many are slowly falling apart, abandoned when the railroad pulled up tracks, or replaced by a row of modern multi-story round concrete tubes on end.  While not attractive or nostalgic like this tin sided (or the much scarcer wooden) elevator, the new tubes often have […]

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Day 279 – Memorial Falls Part 2

Friday, October 9, 2009

Here are two shots of the top of the Upper Falls. * A pretty rock in the stream, Wallpaper sized! (1/100, f8, 135mm, ISO 400) Leslee down below… Another view of the Upper Falls. (1/125, f8, 28mm, ISO 400) This is the top edge of the canyon that both Falls are in.  Wallpaper sized! (1/160, […]

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Day 278 – Memorial Falls Part 1

Friday, October 9, 2009

Last Saturday Leslee and I hiked up to Upper Memorial Falls.  The trailhead is a mile past (south or uphill) from Neihart, at the rest area.  Not great weather, but it wasn’t snowing or raining, and not too hot, either. First you have to cross a bridge by the outhouse, and then the trail starts. […]

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Day 277, The early expectation of frost

Friday, October 9, 2009

I am a little behind in my postings here, but the Seasons keep progressing.  It is almost time for the early October frost of several inches! This is the scene east of Great Falls a couple miles on the newly resurfaced road to Belt.  Just a little sun shining down on the mountains. (1/300, f2.8, […]

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Ten Points to Save Our Nation…

Saturday, October 3, 2009

A selection from from Victor David Hanson’s column at Pajamas Media: ================================== We Should Vote for Anyone . . . Who offers a coherent systematic agenda of reform. What do most want? Not necessarily a Republican or Democrat, or at this 11th hour to be mired in messy issues like gay marriage (I’m opposed to […]

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Day 276, more from the sunrise!

Friday, October 2, 2009

A few more photos from yesterday’s sunrise tour; these are down by Giant Springs and the Missouri River. All of these, other than the panorama at the end, are wallpaper sized.  I took these with my exposure compensation set to minus 2, rather than the minus 1/3 I usually have it set to.  I corrected […]

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Day 275, another beautiful sunrise!

Friday, October 2, 2009

I got up eartly and when up behind Centerville. The usual beautiful panorama. (Click a couple of times to enlarge; BACK to return!) The following photos are wallpaper sized! (1/400, f16, 80mm, ISO 200) (1/160, f16, 105mm, ISO 200) These are not known as the smartest of birds…they do have a hunting season as I […]

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Day 274: End of the Old Gang

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Yesterday my partner Dave retired.  We have been working together since 1987.  There was Vance, Andy, Boots, Dave, and I, covering almost all of /\/\onTana! and some of Wyoming and Idaho, and anywhere else they sent us.  We made a pretty good crew. But they have all retired now, except for me.  A few more […]

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