Lion Geyser. Surely the best fireworks are those of Mom Nature.

Bike season in Glacier National Park rules.

A rainy and snowy Sunday in Glacier National Park today. Still grand.

Peak Kristen. Yesterday, we bicycled on Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. Every time is my favorite.

Great lecture last night at the History Museum in Great Falls on Montana’s history told through the story of 101 special places. And if ever a Thomas Meagher jokes was going to land somewhere, it was here 😆

A happy 116th birthday to #GlacierNationalPark!

A decade ago, I came home from New Zealand and immediately researched immigrating there — alas, I was already too old for my resources level.

Biking on Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park 🏞️

Made my heart happy to be in Glacier National Park yesterday 🏔️

Perfect spring bike ride in Yellowstone ahead of the road opening to cars in a few days. Bison! Bald eagles! Thermal features! #bikesky #parkchat

Today’s Montana dirt road view of Emigrant Peak.

Cumulus smileycus, one of the rarer cloud types, was seen by many of us over Billings on Thursday. Have a good, happy, smiley Friday, Montana! #Montana #smile #happy #sun #cloud #bluesky #sky #skywriting #Thursday #Friday #weather

Happy 406 day from my corner of Montana.

Happy 4/06 to the Glory of the West! It’s #MontanaDay!

The sharp-tailed grouse were dancing and scrapping at the lek right on cue this morning at Benton Lake NWR. It was vastly entertaining. We counted 35 grouse! And, the meadowlarks were singing as we left.

Love to watch the snow geese migrating through Freezout Lake near Choteau, Montana every spring. #blueskybirds

Holter Lake, #Montana

The confluence of Hellroaring Creek with the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park.

Today’s dirt road view from Park County, Montana. It was 79 degrees out.

Sunday report: Sunny, slippery snow-packed roads and snow geese at Freezout Lake in central #Montana.

Hey, #Montana.... a word with you?... THIS is how you are supposed to #winter. Next time, start doing this in December, please. Don't wait until March. #montana #photography

Via Yellowstone National Park.

We still have fun visiting the farm dogs, and my wee pup has never gotten this filthy since.

Got a foot or so of new #snow so I hurried out to frolic in it. #photography #Montana

Moose on a hike today. #Montana

Tonight’s sunset from above Livingston, Montana.

Traffic was a nightmare this evening in rural Montana.

I know I mention this all the time, but our local paper literally won a Pulitzer in the early 2000s, and now they don't even pay for AP, their "newsroom" is a usually empty small office, and I think they officially have 3 employees.

❄️ Spent the weekend in #Yellowstone for a wedding at Old Faithful. It is so magical to be in the park in the winter. ❄️

Can confirm the view from Cameron, #Montana still rules. #mountainmonday

Damn… I was hoping to stay at a caboose in a few months! flatheadbeacon.com/2026/02/13/l...

Found some snow in the Little Belt Mountains

Hubby just showed me a post on another platform. TICKS ARE OUT IN MONTANA.

Took a walk around the neighborhood just now. SAW A BUTTERFLY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY IN GREAT FALLS MONTANA. I am having difficulty comprehending this timeline.

Updating my Americana pinned image. This barn was in the upper Shields Valley. I watched it fall down over a 20-yr. period, photographing it over time. This shot was on a moonset morning about 8 yrs. before it finally collapsed.

If you had told me that there would be two (small) quakes in Cascade County within 60 hours, I might not have believed you. But here we are: www.krtv.com/news/great-f...

The new Montana Heritage Center is a credit to we the people of Montana. It is so well done. 👏 to everyone who made it possible. Go see it!

The #NorthernLights in Great Falls, #Montana

Happy #MountainMonday #Sunrise from Glacier National Park #imageandverse #nationalparks #BlueskyMonday #artyear #Scape Joy is not a visitor here; it belongs to the mountains and comes upon us when we stop resisting them. -Muir

This weekend's cross-country skiing took us up Camas Road for the views of snowy Mt Brown (L) and Mt Edwards (R). The clouds broke over our head to bathe us and the scenery with sunlight. Glacier National Park #nationalparks #montana #skiing #glacier #winter2026 #parkchat #landscapes

Nature put on a show with last night's alpenglow. Wish I'd been on the shore of Lake McDonald to experience it in person. Instead, we just soaked up the lesser colors from nearby. Photo from Glacier NP webcam last night. #nationalparks #sunsets #Montana #Glacier

I read about 90 books this year, fewer than last year but lots of thick ones. I worked in a lot of Africa and France books and did the Taylor Swift reading challenge (a bingo square playing off themes from her music). These were my favorites:

On this 18° December day, Giant Springs State Park was steaming in the rare sunshine. I watched a duck slide down the cascades into the Missouri River. Lots of Canada geese flying above us. This makes 12/12 months in 2025 visiting this treasured spot in #Montana.

Throwing it back a decade to this special story from Great Falls, MT and a lonely tree that inspired a woman going through cancer treatment - and many other travelers along I-15 gftrib.com/1Qrxzpb

“The war was one hour in, and we’d already lost it.” - Clair Boggs, my grand-uncle, on #PearlHarborDay. He was a great guy. #USSArizona #wwiihistory

“He’s always at work from six to two, so she’s good in the morning,” said McAtee. “And then dinner comes and nighttime is horrible because she just screams for him. She looks for him. And I don’t know what to tell her.”

Happy #ForestFriday Glacier National Park —North Fork where meadow, forest, and mountain meet. #nationalparks #wilderness #artyear #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin

Mid-December is the annual opening for hopping a snowcoach into Old Faithful for a couple days of skiing or snowshoeing in the Upper Geyser Basin. So wild with copious steam spewing from every pore in the landscape. Yellowstone National Park #nationalparks #skiing #winter #snowshoe #winterfun

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃

#Thankful for a year of adventure on public lands in Montana!