From this morning’s walk - 48 degrees, the sun was above the mountain tops but the cool moist ground was sending up a thick mist. It rolled up from the small valley below our path not a fog bank such as rolls in to San Francisco but still a roll of mist that moved up and over us. Here in Montana, I’ve woken to fog and mist but this was the first time I was able to watch it.

And, it followed me home…my desk looks out the window to the east and the woods which was clear is now topped with fog.

Blue and green continue to often be the primary colors. ( Summer of Blue and Green , Sky Blue and Grass Green )

From last evening’s walk…

But this morning, from the end of the driveway, the firey colors of another beautiful sunrise.

Montana primary colors.

taken last evening - I just like it. …tried to think of a clever title and failed.

aka a “blast from the past”… September 2002, I put my Whitefish home for sale and moved into a furnished rental on Flathead Lake for the winter. The furnished lake rentals are very inexpensive through the winter - rent for a month is less than 1/2 of the summer weekly “cottage” rental price. It was an opportunity to leave my home furnished for sale appeal and try out Bigfork area as well as be “on” the lake for a wee bit. As it turned out, it was a glorious late summer/early fall and the boys and I got to enjoy our beach many afternoons.

All photos taken October 2002 with my Canon Digital Elph - a whopping 2.1 megapixels - circa early 2001. I was remembering that fall and the photos from that time - I want to try some Photoshop techniques on the photos of the boys near the water…to bring them out and blur the background. Fun for the future! - for now, these still jog the memory.

This morning, sitting at my desk - suddenly the color seemed to shoot up in the sky. I grabbed my camera…

Just as fast as it came - the vibrant color faded and disappeared.

…shocking pink!