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Just visited Butte and greatly enjoyed the food. Hoping to learn who makes the best!

by the western Glennie pastures, northeast of the crazies

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Looking for a ride Bozeman → Great Falls this Friday (Sept. 4), anytime after 2:30 pm, and ideally Great Falls → Bozeman on Labor Day (Sept. 7) sometime after lunch (flexible). Happy to split gas! Either direction would be helpful. DM me if you happen to be making the drive. Thanks!

Always appreciate an article highlighting Montana ranchers and some of the challenges and serious issues they face. Thought I would post a paywall free version of it for interested folks! (I don’t think this violates the no politics rule - apologies to the mods in advance if it does)

Sunset over Missoula and Washington-Grizzly Stadium last night (Aug 29) during the Griz Home Opener.

If you've noticed an unusually high surge in your power bill from NorthWestern Energy recently that's quite a bit different from the same month last year, you're not alone and a state agency wants to hear from you.

The Montana Public Service Commission recently announced that they're aware of many NorthWestern customers seeing a significant increase on their August billing statements.

A Morning of Discoveries

I went for a long walk in the woods Saturday morning. As usual, I just wandered around the forest, sometimes on old game trails, other times stepping over fallen trees while ducking overhead branches. The Sun was up, but concealed behind mountains. Light sprinkles of rain remained from the overnight storms, but I saw bit of blue to the southwest. Diffuse warm light from breaks in the clouds filtered down through the canopy of trees and provided some magic light. 

The first thing that caught my eye were young Douglas Fir trees surrounded by slender Lodgepole Pines. I found one isolated enough from the others to create a compelling scene. From here I wandered into a meadow, covered in Western Coneflower. These fascinating flowers lack the traditional colorful petals of their relatives, but are no less attractive to pollinators. Many of these flowers had rain-soaked bees hiding under them, waiting patiently for the Sun to come out. This particular one had a caterpillar and a Crab spider of some sort existing in some sort of weather induced ceasefire! 

As I stepped carefully back into the forest, I discovered a decaying log covered in tiny orange mushrooms. As is often the case, I first capture the larger scene, then work my way in to the finer details. In the final image, that single mushroom is just 1/2” tall and less than a 1/4” in diameter, but if you look closely, the entire forest around it is reflected in its rain-soaked cap. 

From here I walked across a stream, and was immediately transported to a much more ancient feeling forest. It got darker, the trees more dense, and the forest floor was covered in the remains of fallen giants of yesteryear. I am pretty certain that the path of this photographer closely matched the flight of a bumblebee as I wander this way and that, from scene to scene. 

I cut back towards where I figured the road would be, found a fallen tree bridge to cross back over the creek, and came out right at a talus slope where I knew there to be Pika. Sure enough, I was able to capture a fleeting glance of one such critter, and then in a spring that pops up below the rocks, I got my last shot of the day. A bold frog stayed visible despite its friends all ducking for cover as I walked up. 

After working at Fort Belknap Agency last week, I decided to drive over to it and check it out. The tribes keep their bison herd in that area but I did not see any.

With the Nepal and Grand Canyon flash floods, I was thinking about Montana. What if a large landslide fell into a lake near you?

I was thinking about Holter. Certainly Craig and all the housing along the canyon shores would be decimated. But would a large flood like that spread out quickly once it hit the plains. Or would it continue down to Cascade and GF? Then affect the series of dams?

Just “what if” scenarios. But I hope we have some good alert systems from place to place if the worst were to happen.

Upland season is starting on the first, pretty excited about it! Just moved to the area down from Shelby, any good birds to chase around Townsend? Could be fun to tag along with someone from the area if youd be willing. Let me know, good luck out there!

Changing license plate over and want to choose a good one. Which do you guys think are the most underrated license plates. Aesthetic, foundation, etc

Not to put myself out there or anything but I’ve noticed several “adult” websites I used to access are no longer available for me to use. I’m just curious when they expanded this ban, and how extensive it is?
Before anyone gets on my case, I’m a single dude in my 20s. Let a guy live a little

Multiple years of finances with a "I dunno!?" attitude?