Light

I just love how the light plays on the bottle and the flowers.

Seems like a re-print, but it isn't.

Birds-eye sunset

Words cannot compete!

Mountain Top Dining

Another fabulous week day evening dinner at Keeler Mountain Look-out.
The food was fabulous, the views stunning and the company enchanting!

Lunch Time Swimming

Randy and I have been swimming during our lunch break.

We go to Savage Lake, swim across and back and get back to the office in 40 minutes,

(unless we chat with Jim, the owner of the dock and these fine water lilies for too long!)

It is a lovely mid-day diversion

and helps to enhance a sunny disposition!

Fine Dining, Mountain Style

The Queen of the Mountain!
Preparing the feast!

The finished product! Mmmmmm!

Garden fresh and delicious!

Keeler Mountain Lookout

Can you see Bull Lake?

We arrived at Keeler Mtn. look out around 8 pm last night to share dinner and cocktails with Terry, who mans the look-out. This is the view north, (above) towards Troy and the Kootenai River.
The setting sun
I know you aren't supposed to take fotos into the sun, but I just couldn't resist and I am not disapointed in the results!

A view of the Cabinet Mountains, to the east.

scapes and garlic

Fotos of last nights harvest. yep! All the garlic has been collected from the garden.
And here is the box I got; it is heavy!
The dirty bulb is how it comes out after I knock off the big chuncks of dirt....and then the clean bulb after removing a layer of skin (sort of like an onion).

Remember the scapes?

Those beautiful curling tops of the garlic that reluctantly snipped off a few weeks ago?

Well here they are after drying in a vase for awhile (and gracing my table as a bouquet) and then being disassmbled and placed on the dehydrator.

Footnote: They make the room that the dehydrator is in stink to high heavens!

Mike piles some of his clothing in there and he put on a work shirt that had been sitting in there overnight and no vampires will come within a mile of him I guarantee!