Rainy Days, Rainbows and Rural Art!

June 2017

Conestoga Campground in White Sulfur Springs, Mt was a 5-day stop for us. It rained for 5 days!

At least, for the most part, it was a predictable rain. We’d wake up to a beautiful, if somewhat cloudy morning. Take a nice refreshing walk and it would start raining just as we got back to the trailer.

We took a lot of naps while we were there and I got a lot of work done on this blog. Just before the sun went down it would stop raining and we’d go for another walk!

The park had a fence around the perimeter. It wasn’t a secure fence, mostly just a property marker, but they had these kind of cool silhouette cutouts of different animals and western scenes. Jenny came upon a close to life size cutout of a pronghorn. She didn’t realize it was there until she was about 3 feet away from it. She jump back, startled, then just stared at it for the longest time. She backed off a little, looked at me and stared at it again! It was kind of hilarious to watch her. She didn’t know what to make of that thing! The next time we walked that way she was on the lookout and gave it a wide berth!

One of the nice things about the park was they were adamant about leashing dogs so I didn’t have to worry about some giant dog looking for wiener snacks running free. That happens more than you’d think!

Another nice thing was all that rain made for incredible rainbows!

 This gorgeous bird kept hopping from post to post keeping up with us as we walked!

It's wings were a beautiful  iridescent blue!

 Here's a sample of the silhouette cutouts. Not sure why I didn't take a picture of the pronghorn.

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Phil Jackson’s Hometown!

June 2017

We only stayed at the Indian Creek Campground in Deer Lodge, MT for 3 days. There’s not much to do in Deer Lodge but we did find out that the Grant-Kohrs Ranch in town is part of the National Park Service so we went to the museum there. They have a nice little trail around the area but we couldn’t take the dogs and the mosquitoes were nasty, vicious little things so we opted out.

I did get my National Parks Passport Book stamped!

Since I only took a few pictures I intended to combine this post with the next one.

Then I found out the most important thing about Deer Lodge, MT!

PHIL JACKSON WAS BORN THERE!

That was definitely worthy of a post all unto itself!

I AM, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE

A LAKER’S FAN!!!!

Yeah, yeah, yeah I know they haven’t been doing so great lately but I grew up during the Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, and Gail Goodrich era. With The Golden Throat, Chick Hearn calling the games on the radio. I remember the 33 game win streak, thinking, They’re NEVER going to loose! That was almost 50 years ago and that record streak still stands.

Many people, including me, believe it will always stand.

Then it was Kareem and Magic! It was magic!

When my son and daughter became fans we watched on TV as Coach Phil lead Kobe and Shaq to more championships! The Lakers were great again!

The Lakers WILL be on top again someday!

And until they are I will always be a Laker Fan!

Besides when my son Jeffry, the Chef and Laker’s Fan was Head Chef of the Restaurant at Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park he heard Coach was going to be visiting. (this was back when he was still Coach of my Lakers) Jeffry prepared a special purple soup then he made a gold colored glaze and floated a Laker L on top of the soup in a large tureen. He’s not just a great chef he’s also very clever. When Coach came in Jeffry got to meet him!

 Saw this spillway when we were driving to Deer Lodge.

I just thought it was cool!

 Above is the pretty little lake

Below is the Earth Dam the spillway flowed from!

 This fat little Robin sat there watching the dogs! They didn't know it was watching them!

Wagon from the

Grant-Kohrs Ranch! 

Magpie at the ranch

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK! (part 2)

June 2017

Instead of doing a picture overload post I’m doing 2 posts so you can really appreciate each picture and how incredible this place is! And remember this is without going to my favorite part of the park:

The Going-to-the-Sun road!

We also went to Hungry Horse Dam. When we first got to the town Larry wondered out loud how the place got its name. I said I hoped that it wasn’t from some poor starving horse. It was! But the story had a good ending, we read all about it at the dam!

We got to watch the artist paint this building! Turned out pretty awesome, don't you think? 

 More magical looking flowers at the RV Park!

They were tiny little white dots one day and these the next!

 We stopped for a selfie this time!

 This part of Montana is famous for their huckleberries! 

We stocked up on Huckleberry Fudge, Huckleberry Jam and Huckleberry Syrup!

Yummmmm!

Saw this pretty lady along the road!

 Here's the story of how the place got its name!

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GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!

June 2017

We spent our 27th Wedding Anniversary heading to one of our favorite places! It's impossible to see Glacier National Park too many times! There is something new and amazing every time you go! We stayed in Hungry Horse, MT at the Mountain Meadow RV Park! It’s a really beautiful place that would have been a fun stay even if it wasn’t just 9 miles from Glacier! But you can’t be just 9 miles from Glacier and not go! We’d spent time in the southern and eastern parts of the park but not a lot in the western part. We discovered that IT’S ALL BEAUTIFUL!!! The only disappointing part of this trip was the Going-to-the-Sun road was still closed for winter! IN JUNE!!! It’s one of the most beautiful roads in America and a must see for anyone who loves the outdoors! We’d taken the road a few times before. It was still disappointing to not be able to take it again! I did a picture overload even without it!

Enough pictures to merit TWO blog posts… so stay tuned!

 I don't know what these were but they were all over the place and rather magical looking!

You know when this is the view out 

your back window

it's going to be a nice stay!

Such a great place to celebrate 

27 years

together!

Lake McDonald is gorgeous!

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