It was overcast, cool, blustery, rainy and drizzly. There must have been something good out there as Bob was out until the drizzle changed to sleet.
An editorial comment???? – put another log on the fire!
As a well trained human, I put another log on the fire.
Later in the afternoon, there was some blue sky, a bit of sun and no rain – Karl and I headed out for a walk. Rain in the valley, but a tiny bit of snow on the mountain!
Fall arrives sometime on Monday but out and about today there were the beginning signs…
You’ll have to trust me that they are headed south…
I saw the yellow aspen and red and yellow ??? behind Karl on a late afternoon walk. Clouds were starting to roll in as forecast – a few thunderheads starting to build behind the mountains.
As I write this, early evening, thunder is rumbling behind the mountains and it has become very still.
Signs of change, signs of Fall.
The photos following were taken on 9/15/2001 at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. I went looking for them as a reader and her husband are currently in the Grand Tetons – deciding whether to go to Glacier and I thought I’d email her some shots as I remembered there had been both sunshine and snow…
The mountain goats are nearly always around the summit of Going to the Sun Road (Logan Pass). As is typical with goats, they will munch on anything and have found that visitors have an amazing array of munchable stuff on and around them. This mama and baby were doing the actual mountain goat thing – ON the mountain – my old camera without much zoom, though.
And the snow????
Even though I did the mega shopping trip on Friday – and I do mean mega! And even though I had a list…argh!! – I ALWAYS forget something(s). So Karl and I took off early yesterday – stopping to walk in Somers before heading back to the grocery to get the forgotten items.
It was clear at the house but a large fog bank sat between the road near the top just below the house and the main highway. The main highway and the valley floor were clear. During our entire walk the fog stayed at that midpoint.
The sky above, around and to the west was clear and blue.
And along the walk path, against that upper and western blue, in a garden I always admire…
the sunflowers were blooming!
Yesterday morning was heavily overcast. I have learned to take the camera no matter what. As we left the property and entered the adjacent land which opens to the full sky and mountain view, a vivid blue hole in the overcast appeared. In my head, I said “a blue hole” and it reminded me of “The Blue Hole” – an anomaly in Castalia, Ohio.
“The Blue Hole” was one of those things like “House of Mystery” or “the largest” whatever. In my memory, it was the only venue of that nature that we ever stopped to see when I was a child. “The Blue Hole” was a deep water thing – supposedly of some nature that made it impossible to determine the depth. Also, it apparently lacked oxygen in the water. My memory is of a very blue water hole, surrounded by a fence and about 50 feet in diameter. I remember leaning against the fence and peering into the depths.
The thing is, I think I remember stopping at “The Blue Hole” more than once…and I think we had to pay to see it. And now I wonder why, as we never stopped at any of the other oddity tourist things.
The clouds brought up the memories of “The Blue Hole” and I was forming the blog post in my head…thinking to get any current information and web site links that had more information than I could dredge up from memory. When I googled “The Blue Hole Ohio”, I had a small shock. A number of entries referred to the scam that was “The Blue Hole”. Other sites had explanations. Some links were blog entries as this will be – childhood memories from people my age. “The Blue Hole” as an “attraction” no longer exists…and, of course, it had oxygen in it!
So, “The Blue Hole” of my childhood is a bit of a mystery. But the experience remains and the memory of the vivid blue..the memories surfacing today as I looked at the “blue holes” in the overcast sky of northwest Montana.
Blue holes…a bit of a mystery.
Karl… Karl went to the “dentist” on Tuesday. As they (vet) do the cleaning with the pet under anesthetic, Karl had a few more things “done”…a small cyst removed from his eyelid, x-rays to check his hips and 4 year old TPLO surgery (Tibia Plateau Leveling Osteotomy – the current procedure to “fix” a torn ACL in large dogs which involves taking the leg apart, changing the angle of the tibia and putting it back together – yeah, yuck – but it did the trick!). All was well with everything but they shaved his eyelid to remove the cyst so he looks like he was on the wrong end of a punch in the face…
Yesterday, which was also gray, rainy, dreary – Karl spent most of the day sleeping off the remains of the anesthetic, but today looks to be 100% himself – discounting the goofy eye look…
What’s up with Bob???
here’s what…
Critters…