HERE is a video of an airplane used to fight forest fires as scoops water out of the bay in front of our place on Flathead Lake. And HERE ...

There is a new skate park in Missoula. I never owned a skateboard when I was growing up. I also never thought I'd take up windsurfing,...

I had a great time in Missoula. Saw lots of my old friends and we really had a party. Saturday morning I went for a bike ride around town....

Before my bike ride up the Going To The Sun Road in Glacier Park last week, I stopped to use a bathroom at a boat launch along the shore of ...

Well there's just about nobody else left to kick out of the Tour de France. They got rid of Moreni and the whole Cofidis team pulled out...

Here are some interior shots I took inside Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier Park. Every time I got to Glacier I like to spend a little time ha...

I guess in life there are good things and bad things. Of course it's nice to focus on the good things, and perhaps if you don't tal...

I managed to get to Glacier Park and ride my bike up the Going to the Sun Highway from just past the far end of Lake McDonald to Logan Pass ...

I found a crankset for my bicycle build project. It's a Campagnolo Chorus 10 speed crank, and it's a metal one. And it was a closeou...

Here is a picture I took at the top of Logan Pass looking north with a disposable camera a few years ago when I rode my bike up the GOING TO...

I went to watch the Liberty Lake Valley Girl triathlon this morning. This gal looks nice on her Cannondale bicycle. I rode my mountain b...

I realize that I haven't found a July cyber tree. I'm always looking. It's so hot that I've been dreaming about snow, fresh...

Today Landis was on Talk of the Nation on NPR. They talked about his case and the doping controls and the Tour de France. Most interestingly...

My thermometer, next to my elk painting rock on my fireplace mantle, says that it is at least 80 degrees in my house. It was just a little...

I noticed that someone did the first cleanup of the private fireworks mess at the state line of Idaho and Washington. They always do this b...

Here is a photo of the big sky over Flathead Lake in Montana this weekend. Montana is known as the big sky country. I've added this phot...

A kid sifts through the debris left by people lighting off fireworks at the state line of Idaho last night. He's looking for ones that f...

The Spokane River near the state line of Idaho. The bike path goes for miles along this river into Spokane. This photo is of the Spokane Ri...

Before I got a (small) digital camera I used to take a disposable camera along with me on bike tours. Then I'd get the photos on a disk....

Here is a photo I took on my way home at Perma Montana looking east along the South Fork of the Flathead River. This river is always turquo...