Shortly after 7 a.m. this morning on the way into town – different direction from yesterday…dropping more trash…

Below – the “light” for the rainbow… the sun in the east.

I lived in San Francisco for 2 years and then Los Angeles for 13 before moving to Montana in early 1994. Any spot in California with even a snippet of a view of anything was extremely expensive. It was astonishing to come to Montana and find ordinary spots with stunning views… the MacDonald’s in Polson sits on a hilltop with a beautiful view of Flathead Lake and the southern end of the Swan Range and the Flathead Valley. The Flathead County landfill, just south of Whitefish has a gorgeous mountain view in the north end of the valley.

Yesterday, after dropping trash at the county green box area (various of these scattered around the county for the drop off of residential trash) on Montana highway 82 which runs along the northern end of Flathead Lake, I noticed the lake and the clouds and the sky and the colors. I pulled off right in front of the dump area to see what I could capture…

It is a bit hard to see in this reduced photo but if you look closely – at the horizon “line”, you can see a sliver of lake – ruffled from the wind with whitecaps.

The view from the dump…