Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Friday, October 20, 2017

The Way Back

Today, I am posting photographs from various points along our drive from the Canadian border back down to Helena.  That girl and I could not have asked for a better day.  The temperature eventually reached into the seventies and the high clouds never erased the blue sky.
At Great Falls, we diverted to the frontage road and began looping alongside the Missouri River where it uncoils amid cottonwood trees, wild rose, and tall grass after having carved through the stony Big Belt Mountains.
We stopped at several fishing access points so we could rake our fingers through the waters of the river.  We also stopped at Tower Rock State Park and took a half mile hike up into the volcanic fortifications of another time.
Note in one photograph, that girl standing at the base of a giant cottonwood tree—a tree that is obviously many hundreds of years old.  Also note the tiny deer standing against the sky alongside the stone turrets at Tower Rock State Park. 



--Mitchell Hegman

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