Dreamin'

“If a little dreaming is dangerous,

the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
Marcel Proust

Molly Moves to Maine

I am sad. I can't help it, I am really happy for Molly and a new adventure....but Maine?!
C'mon, you can't get further away than that and still be in the US!
We will visit and I am excited to visit Maine, but still sad that she will be so far away!
Here is the truck and they are now on their way across the US, they should be in the most beautiful part of Highway 2 as we speak....going through Glacier Park......how could you trade that for Maine?! I know Maine is gorgeous too...can't wait to see for myself!

Spring in our yard

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alice M. Swain

We still have quite a bit of snow, but three days of sunshine has made a remarkable dent in the snowpack. Yesterday I was out raking the exposed yard and picking up limbs and encouraging the thin patches of snow to melt quicker by raking them.

It was nice to get to hang the laundry in the sunshine! I stripped and washed our bed and hung all the pillows and comforter out in the sun, everything is crisp and smells fresh! I opened all the windows in the house in an effort to bring sprintime inside.

I raked piles of larch needles and gathered wheel barrows full of broken limbs and hauled it to the burn pile, now I have the urge to have a fire and roast some food on a stick!

The good thing about a slow melt off is that each day I can rake the newly exposed ground, rather than having the huge job of raking the entire yard at once. It just seems more manageable and there is a stopping point!

something about sunshine after a long winter is both invigorating and exhausting!

Jubliation!

Birdsong

Intro to Spring!Some kind of moss or fungus on the bark of the cottonwood trees.
I know this isn't the greatest shot, but I couldn't resist.
The wings of these geese were shining bright in the sun
and the geese were honking up a storm and making all manner of racket!
It was stunning.


I love the sky reflected in the water!



The Kootenai River running through the wildlife refuge.

My camera wasn't warmed up yet or something but I just love how this photo turned out.

I have needed a a purge and a shot of spring, so after filling the car with the glass recycling, I headed to Bonners Ferry to dispose of it, I left in a snowstorm and ended up walking 6 miles in the refuge in the sunshine in the afternoon.

It was a delightful shot of spring.

Nothing can awaken spring in your heart like the song of thousands of redwing blackbirds!!

The refuge is full of all sorts of birds right now, I saw eagles, swans, an assortment of different ducks, at least two types of geese flickers, woodpeckers, and songbirds galore.

For the landscape being so dun and gray still, there was a remarkable amount of subtle color everywhere. Spring is springing up quickly everywhere I look!

Spring Cleaning

Mike has been working on the basement for months now and he has gotten to the point where he is hanging sheetrock. Yay! The transformation is great! Everything is scooted to the middle of the basement floor so that he can have access to the walls.

We try to recycle and it often turns into collecting before we trek out to dispose of it.

Here is nearly a winters worth of glass packed into my car.

It looks like we are bar owners! But really there is other glass in the mix aside from beer and wine bottles AND we do often take other peoples glass sometimes as we hate to see it just get tossed.

“Stereotypes are flat, one-dimensional,
like the donkey you blindly pin the tail on.
Archetypes are rich, lush, juicy………….
you can’t keep a good archetype down.”

Live music by "Back Adit"

Some of the late night revelers

I love the golden blurr of this shot...call it artistic!

Some close-ups of the where all the noise was coming from and some other shots from the floor!

Outside, nighttime, dancin' to the band...