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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