Desiree and I visited the Helena Valley Regulating Reservoir yesterday afternoon. The reservoir, with 518 surface acres and some 6 miles of shoreline, also offers miles of trails that stitch along the shore and twine out onto the nearby prairie. We picked up a shoreline trail and followed that along cottonwood trees for a time before hooking back to the car on a trail across an open expanse of grass.
Desiree particularly enjoyed the way the big sky
shuffled clouds overtop us as we hiked the prairie portion of our chosen trail.
She has come to love the broad basins with mountain vistas that epitomize much
of Southwest Montana.
I enjoyed the sun, which presses against you gently
this time of year. And a light breeze carried the vital scent of damp earth.
Out on the prairie, ants and bugs scurried across the trail while early butterflies
rather tumbled by. All of this as a single western meadowlark sang out its distinctly
beautiful song.
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—Mitchell Hegman
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