Things to do with Ariel While She is in Montana

·         Email each other while Ariel sits in my kitchen and I sit in my living room.

·         Eat Beef

·         Go on a wildflower hike and give our own names for flowers.  Examples: arnica will become yellowees and paintbrush might be rocket flares.

·         Fish a stream that has blue and red rocks lining its bottom.

·         Just sit and listen to Ariel talk.

·         Watch Ariel dance with little kids in a city park.

·         Watch the sun deposit itself into the Rocky Mountains like a slow, red coin.

·         Gather new sage tips and bundle them with fine string.

·         Photograph an aspen grove in the slant of morning light.

·         Stand in the aspen grove as a light breeze softs through and watch the leaves spin like river fishing lures.

·         Dance with Ariel on an empty prairie.

·         Cross the Missouri River under a high sun.

·         Witness a herd of elk as they draw up though a green mountainside park.

·         And then some.

--Mitchell Hegman