David and I were 17 and 16 when this photo was taken at Pontchartrain Beach in New Orleans. It is our favorite sweetheart picture, so I’m sharing it for Valentine’s Day. I haven’t received any Valentine’s Day flowers, cards, or candies since then but I do have the gift of LOVE. If you […]
Grand Canyon National Park It has been reported that the body of a man who plunged to his death some 600 feet into the Grand Canyon, has been recovered. Yesterday, on Monday around 6:00 a.m., eyewitnesses told park officials that they saw a man drive his blue vehicle into the South Rim of the […]
Willoughby? Maybe it’s wishful thinking nestled in a hidden part of a man’s mind, or maybe it’s the last stop in the vast design of things, or perhaps, for a man like Gart Williams, who climbed on a world that went by too fast, it’s a place around the bend where he could jump off. […]
We can intrigue, inform, lure, excite, or invite with our stories, yet cannot pass on experience from one to another. The images we capture serve to awaken memories in those that have them and hopefully stimulate fantasies in those that don’t. Last Saturday, after driving past some of the most dramatic scenery this world has […]
As my thirty-sixth anniversary approaches, I reflect on what I have observed about the institution of marriage. Throughout history, most cultures have agreed upon and understood the definition of marriage. Apparently twenty-first century America is not one of these. How sad it is that young Americans know nothing of the most basic matrimonial rules. First […]
We had decided, before they were born, to raise M&E out west. Now was the time to live up to our commitment. As the West is a big place, we had to find just the right location. We had eliminated most of the country. All that was left were two places and these were yet […]
Often seemingly insignificant decisions can have major influence on the course of our lives. One of those occurred on the cold morning of December 22, 1973. For the Christmas holiday, I had planned an adventure trip to see the snow peaked mountains of Colorado. As the time to depart drew near, I had some apprehension […]
Our neighbor David Letterman announced on his late night talk show, his marriage to long time girlfriend Regina Lasko. Okay he isn’t really our neighbor but he does live somewhere along the Rocky Mountain Front in Choteau, which is only about 77 miles as the crow flies from Kalispell. There happens to be a huge […]
Last week I read two ads that reminded me of how basic commodities can change and how we simply adjust to what becomes available. The first was a family promoting their organic grass fed bison. The second was an email offering half of a grass fed steer. Growing up in America, almost every meal was […]
by Marlene We couldn’t help but compare the similarity between the US Airways jetliner that landed in the frigid waters of the Hudson River on Thursday to Grandpa Davey’s article titled Vaya Con Dios. In both situations, these were planes with no where to go but down. Miraculously, both pilots landed these planes under extraordinary […]
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