Mary Kujawa
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Montana Hiker. Oh and also…Developmental Biologist, Neuroscientist, Physician, Mom, Gramma
Very little blue to be found on this
#BlueSkyMonday
but the grey on grey adds some mystery and drama to start the week.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#LandscapePhotography
7 days ago
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A brilliant sunrise greeting the arriving winter storm. Nothing makes me feel
#small
quite like Mother Nature.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Montana
9 days ago
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I was going to take the day off from hiking, but the updated forecast calls for band after band of snow starting tomorrow. With it maybe being the last of green visible on the ground, I decided best to hit the trail after all.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
10 days ago
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My passion is to understand the human mind; perception and belief. There have been innumerable posts ‘what will it take to change minds’. This wk a post with sim. pic, ‘I’ve lived in MT 15 yrs and never seen anything like this. What is going on with these?’ W.Larch put on this display EVERY YEAR
12 days ago
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Getting outside has been my momentary reprieve from the craziness of this current world. The last long spell has been full of sogginess of all forms. Wearing my rain gear has left me as wet inside as outside. Thank goodness for the pearls nature delivers to keep me going.
13 days ago
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It was a rainy/snowy weekend. As I was coming off the trail, the clouds started lifting and dividing, making for some magical views.
#MountainMonday
#Montana
14 days ago
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Looking back over the past week, when I think of
#bright
, I recall sitting in my yard, all bundled up, watching the Northern Lights show and being mesmerized.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Montana
16 days ago
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The forest embracing the stream. And yes, those are flakes of snow salting the air.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
17 days ago
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It’s starting up again in NW Montana. Loving the Aurora Borealis show
19 days ago
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The Aurora Borealis is putting on a magnificent show tonight. NW Montana.
20 days ago
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This view from a couple of weeks ago will have to do. I headed out to check snow depth after the latest storms. But…those also brought high winds. The access roads to TH are now littered with windfalls. A 5 mile hike turned to 15-20 miles is too far for these old legs.
#Stunday
#Montana
#Wilderness
22 days ago
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#Evening
has been falling earlier these days but grateful for the bright moon lighting the night this week, even through heavy and ominous clouds.
#BlueSkyArtShow
23 days ago
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Snow turned to a drizzly rain and bedecked the trees.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
24 days ago
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One of the first of powdered sugar days. (Of many yet to come)
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#SnowDays
25 days ago
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Timing is everything. When I saw the updated weather forecast yesterday, I rushed to finish reorganizing the garage so I could park inside. View of my yard this morning.
#Montana
27 days ago
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Wishing you a get out and vote kinda week.
#MountainMonday
#Montana
#LandscapePhotography
28 days ago
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Lot of freezing fog this week. Natures crystals greet me on my walks.
#Stunday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
29 days ago
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When the temp is in the low 20s (F) and the fog is freezing, the morning walk through the forest turns magical.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
about 1 month ago
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Yeah, I hike slowly. Some hikes, I find myself stopping to take in things both big and small, every few steps. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
about 1 month ago
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Hiked above the fog and the sun rose. A selfie to celebrate making it.
about 1 month ago
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Pausing the craziness for a moment to stroll through a stand of Western Cedars.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#LandscapePhotography
about 1 month ago
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Enjoying Terra firma for as long as I can. The snow line is marching lower and already microspikes in pack. Won’t be long until snowshoes added to the heft.
#MountainMonday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#MountainPhotography
#LandscapePhotography
about 1 month ago
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The start of another cold front moving in. The promise of arriving precipitation, with the snow line marching downward.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#LandscapePhotography
#SundayStunday
about 1 month ago
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The turning of the Western Larch is always so bittersweet. Enthralling in their brilliance, it’s difficult to contain the joy. But always backed by that shadow of barrenness and darkness that is soon to dominate.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#LandscapePhotography
#NaturePhotography
about 1 month ago
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Very small waterfall in a hidden paradise. Still trying to fit in as many mountain hikes before the trails become blanketed in snow.
#WaterfallWednesday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#Wilderness
about 1 month ago
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A favorite activity in NW Montana this time of year is to ‘go larching’. The perfect calm of the lake worked as a mirror to double the impact of the Western Larch in their fall golden display.
#Montana
about 1 month ago
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108 Showed Up, Turned Out in Libby, Montana (pop 3400)
#NoKings
#mtpol
about 1 month ago
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An old blaze marking the trail. And fur traps in Grizzly Bear territory.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
about 2 months ago
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I’m thinking I need to carry the breaking of a new day on an endless loop with me. A reminder that hope and resolve refresh when we need them most.
about 2 months ago
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Ahh. The crisp cool days are meant for mountain hiking.
#MountainMonday
#Montana
about 2 months ago
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How to describe such moments. Sweat flowing. Cooling embrace of the mountain air. Huckleberry bushes reddening. Birds frantically feeding and flocking to move before snows descend. For a moment, all calms to register and store in my soul.
#Montana
#Wilderness
#NaturePhotography
about 2 months ago
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With all that is going on, it is so nice to have reminders to stop, take a deep breath, and take in moments of intense beauty. Sunset just now.
2 months ago
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#TheRoad
home. The fall brings changing colors but also bands of cold fronts bearing precipitation.
#BigSkyArtShow
#Montana
2 months ago
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The changing colors of fall. Is any other season so filled with contrasting emotions?
#ForestFriday
#Montana
2 months ago
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reposted by
Mary Kujawa
Laan 🌟 Illustrator-Author
2 months ago
Happy first day of Autumn everyone 🥰
#kidlit
#illustration
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Rehoming. A territorial squirrel stashing pine cones in an old log home. This log home collapses and decomposes more each year. Kinda sad seeing this history disappear, but yet reassuring to see nature reclaiming what has always been its.
#Montana
2 months ago
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When the forest opens for a vista…
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
2 months ago
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Reflecting on how magical it is to start the day above the clouds.
3 months ago
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Simple pleasures. Nothing feels better after a hike in a downpour of rain about to turn to snow, than getting back to your car and turning the heater on blast and the seat heater on high.
3 months ago
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Sunday. A day for gentle intrusions into reflections. A day to start with allowing your thoughts to wander.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
#StunDay
3 months ago
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I carry my
#Home
on my back(pack). My latest goal is to hike to as many high mountain lakes as possible before the winter snows limit the trails.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Montana
#LandscapePhotography
#NaturePhotography
3 months ago
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Nothing brightens the fall trails quite like the turning of the Mountain Ash.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
3 months ago
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What a day yesterday.Trying to fit too many errands while in town. Another unsettling news cycle. Rushing to make calls from parking lots. The decision to loop by the ponds outside of town was the best. Sandhill Cranes staging for migration. Calmed by the melody of soft purrs and rattling bugles.
3 months ago
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There’s something special about waterfalls. The sound. The scent. The sight. The electric touch. Somehow they seem to bring a sensory cleanse when you most need it.
#WaterfallWednesday
#Montana
3 months ago
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A calm sunrise paddle to start our week.
#BlueSkyMonday
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
3 months ago
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Like so many, this
#Summer
I have looked to brief reprieves to fit into my day and recharge and do what I can to resist. Nature, perhaps healing, at the very least a breath of fresh air to lift me up.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
3 months ago
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The shift to fall brings on more morning fog around me. The quiet this brings while kayaking offers an enveloping peace of solitude.
#BlueSkyMonday
#Montana
3 months ago
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Sunday
#Stunday
Kayaking as the fog lifts.
#Montana
#NaturePhotography
3 months ago
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Four years after a major forest fire swept across the mountain, new growth is establishing. Fall colors are starting to add contrast.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
#FireLookouts
3 months ago
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