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Big Sky Country
Talking about his love of the West, Wallace Stegner wrote, " You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens
and lawns; you have to get used to inhuman scale"
He went on to write, "The western landscape is of the wildest variety and contains every sort of topography and landforms, even most of those familiar
from farther east. Bits of East and Middle West are buried here and there in the West, but no physical part of the true West is buried in the East.
the West is short-grass plains, alpine mountains, geyser basins, plateaus and mesas and canyons and cliffs, salinas and sinks, sagebrush and Joshua
tree and saguaro ....."
And he continues so beautifully describing why we love the west. We have traveled across this nation and have seen many beautiful places, but we are
always happy once we return to the west.
These are just a few of our pix from the summer of 2011 celebrating the Big Sky Country of Montana where our son lives and where we love to visit.
Seems appropriate to end this with the picture of a very happy wet Maggie Mae. She has no idea that she has cancer and we are committed to making all
of her remaining time as joyful as possible. Her vet hopes for up to two years.---Montana and Bahia Asuncion are her really happy places.
[Edited on 10-13-2011 by DianaT]
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Oh! So beautiful Diane! The first one made me think of approaching Harlowtown, though it could be so many places. And later I may have seen the
Missions, or maybe not...
Montana is my other happy place.
So sorry to hear of Maggie Mae's illness, I hope she has some lovely days.
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Nice Diane, thanks for posting......dt
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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DianaT, Thanks.
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As I scrolled through your photos, I thought "How great that Maggie is healthy and happy again".
Then your last note .....
Very sad for you, John and Tom that her days may be limited.
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WOW !
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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Thanks---Big Sky Country is a wonderful place.
Paula, the first pix was taken on a back road near Choteau. But as you say, lots of places in Montana look just like that. On the day we visited
the Bison, we visited that beautiful mission on the Flathead Reservation---may post a couple of pix as it is so different and beautiful.
Maggie---she is on a new chemo routine and we are still hopeful for at least a couple more years. Fortunately, she is not sick at all and is still
loving life.
On edit----Paula, the light just went on---you were referring to the Mission Mountains and yes you do see them. 
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Diane,
Looks like you had a great time, thanks for posting the beautiful photos.
Ken
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Great pictures. We were thru Montana in September and it is a very beautiful place as your pictures show.
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Nice pictures Diane,
To know why it is called the big sky country, you have to travel it extensively. You do get that feeling in some of your pictures. The sky seems
larger and more intense than in other states. No idea why, but when you get that feeling you know whence the name.
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Thanks much ... some really excellent shots...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Nice pictures Diane,
To know why it is called the big sky country, you have to travel it extensively. You do get that feeling in some of your pictures. The sky seems
larger and more intense than in other states. No idea why, but when you get that feeling you know whence the name.
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Thank you---
As you say, it is a feeling and I am not sure it can be captured in a photo----and I agree that it is like no other place and it does leave one
wondering why.
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Ed, you have it backwards. The sky looks bigger because we call it big sky country.
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You read "Big Sky Country" on the State license plates, but it has no meaning..... until you go there. My wife and I toured the state on our bicycles.
We found it to be just amazing, we loved it. Mosquitoes were nasty though, especially in the Bitterroot Valley because they were getting ready to cut
hay.
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Haven't been there since I was 17, fighting forest fires and working on the Northern Pacific, but I remember the sky really did look bigger. I guess
it was the absence of pollution.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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All this talk about the Big Sky Feeling, and I failed to include one of my favorite sky pix from that trip!
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Thing is, I traveled through it several times coming from Alberta. Not much pollution there, especially coming from the Red Deer region. Have
relations in a small farming town there.
But , for some reason, the sky doesn't look the same as Montana's. So latitude doesn't explain it either.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Thing is, I traveled through it several times coming from Alberta. Not much pollution there, especially coming from the Red Deer region. Have
relations in a small farming town there.
But , for some reason, the sky doesn't look the same as Montana's. So latitude doesn't explain it either. |
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I agree about the "Big Sky" thing. Living in the mountains, the sun sets and the temps drop. Throw a couple of sticks of wood in the heater, kick back
and enjoy. It's already snowing in the high country.
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Text and photos are wonderful! They're a reminder for me of years ago and a time when on a family trip from British Columbia had us stop in the heat
of the day just off a Montana highway dotted with dead rabbits. From the car we took a short walk downhill to view the remains of a farmhouse where
my grandparents, aunt, uncle and father had lived for a short time many, many years before. This was Big Sky country for sure. I only recall the
bricks left from the chimney, strewn where gravity had left them. In 1914 my father's older brother left to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force to
help fight the First World War, and at war's end the family moved north to Alberta.
Later that day in 1960 we drove on, watching an electrical storm miles away, and made it into Saskatchewan.
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