Last Leg of the Journey

 

STORY HOUR

CONANT PHOTO GALLERY
From Seattle to Glacier National Park (No Glacier National Park soon), then back to Maine the last week or so of August. Stay tuned....

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There is NO place like...	HOME! Yup! For sure!	August 6: Breakfast at Braeburn's,.
Time to peruse the menu.	Then time to say, :"Good-bye" for another year.	Roses shine in downtown Langley.
Ron for lunch at Primo.	Then evening comes to Langley....	Lovely!
Aug. 8: Breakfast w/ Cheryl and Gary at Mukileo.	Finally a shot of Jordan's rings.	We meet old friends on the ferry back to Seatlle.
The obligatory Space Needle in Seattle.	We parked in front of this interesting building.,	Seattle from the parking space.
Seattle's train station is an old one...	Interesting inside an out..	It's an interesting trip along the shores...
....of PUget Sound.	Pretty!	Then thru the mountains.
Aug. 9: Morning at Whitefish...	Good-bye Amtrak.	Hello Lake MacDonald!
August 9: Here we are and there are lots of farms!	Ron takes in the view.	Here is what he sees.
And here's the junk corner of our room.	Day 1 here we go by the Kalispell airport....jets for the big whigs!	At K-Mart Steelers are big even out here!
Ron checks out the pants....the price is right!	Kalispell county court house.	And near museums are churches....this one Lutheran.
The Hockaday WAS an old Carnegie Library....beautiful building.	Ron takes photos.	Hockaday again. There I am!
and again.	Central School Museum....today is museum day.	American side and...
,...Montana side.	They're selling buckskin dresses in the gift shop.	Front from inside.
Old plows surely were works of art!	Look closely and you'll see...	....her!
Remember these old school clocks? You probably remember it because you watched it so closely!	Ron takes a picture of American poets.	Kalispell is a busy place!
Love this place!!	The shakes are to 'die for' here!	She tells us this is bubblegum ice cream.
Is there really penny candy anymore?	Coke in a cooler...the old fashioned way!	Next door the 'Wild West' is.....
....for sale.	...take your pick!	hats, boots,
	or shirts!	_8106637.jpg
More hats..	Fancy schmansy...	....or religious...take your pick!
in boots or buckles.	_8106866.jpg	LL even sells out here!
Rock skipping is a favorite pass time...even here!	We're home at last!	People fish from below.
_8106977.jpg	_8106995.jpg	A storm moves across the lake....
...showering rain over all!	Aug. 10: Next morning we're off to	....explore the park.
These 'weeds' bloom on hillsides where there has been fire; therefore, fireweed!	A fisherman wades the creek and finds it too deep for his breeches!	All wet!
But fishing must be worth it!	Scene from another direction...	At 'Trail of the Cedars....
This stripped trunk is SO smooth!	And this one is NOT!	But they all are cedars at the Trail of the Cedars.
Indian club leaf at same place.	We feel like we're sitting on top of the world here.
These grow everywhere.	There are still lots of wildflowers...and....	...I'll find their names when I get...
	....home...this is Indian Paint Brush.
	The road grows right out of the mountain!	Forest fire regions are interesting.
The Silver stairs along route 2 skirting the park.	Another view from Route 2.	Waterfall...
Glacier Lily flower at Logan Pass.
Cute fella!!		Through one of the many tunnels.
The Weeping wall???		Aug. 12: St. Mary's at the entrance to the Eastern Park.
Logan's Pass....		World at our feet!
Down Going to the Sun Road.
MacDonald Creek.		Guess who?
Take care!!	Lovely local gifts!	Evening walk time!
Time of put boats away!	On Lake MacDonald.	Aug. 12: We head out for the Bison Range, going thu Kalispell.
This ad'll birng you in!	This truck has sat around so long therrte are trees growing in the back.	Etched window w/ Indian designs in Polson.
Polson....typical western town.		The new overpass at the Indian Community College.
Love it!		Views from the Bison Range.
Bison	They technically aren't buffalo!	Patriotism shines through.
	These grow in fields all over.	Guess who?!!
Flathead Lake, the largest lake east of the mIssissippi.	Casinos are almost as prevalent as..	...the wildflowers....gotta spend your $$ somehow!
Ron exits the room for this view!!	_8138216.jpg	ron exits his tipi!!
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Another forest fire site.	Along route 2 on the Reservation.	Americanized Indian tipi....Espresso for all!
Cowboy museum on reservation.	These are for sale too at the Cowboy Museum on the reservation.	Same place.
These saddles look like they 'd been fished from the bottom of a stream or lake!	At the Cowboy museum...	The long and non-winding road!
Land goes on and on on the reservation!		And here and there it even LOOKS like a reservation....as though Indians should live in...
tipis or log cabins.	blackfeet Statue.	...and flag.
....on the reservation.	We were here!	Indian iconography and European iconography too.
Wonderful!		_8148535.jpg
Bikers share the road.	Reading the newspaper	_8148601.jpg
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Guess it's fulll moon time!	Time to read a local paper.	Salish Community College walkway.l
Lode poles	Silhouettes on the walkway.	Nine Pipes Reserve.
Nipes Pipes Reserver.	Cross for Ron...	....he watns to write a poem about these.
Farm on the Reservation.	Views on the range.....	Antelope at Bison Range.
Bison Range	Lonely tree at Bison Range.	hungry antelope!
What big eyes you have!	Antelope	Time for a cool drink!
Getting this close you realize how much courage ...	...it took to hunt these guys with bows and...	...arrows.
Wheat paraphenalia.	Wheat field.	Charlo grain elevatort
Reservation justice?	Road to Mission Mountains	Signs are written in English AND Indian languages.
Reservation farm.	Another casino...this one on reservation land!	What is this about?
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Aug. 15: The lake is gorgeous...what else is new?	Growing near the ....	...gift shop.
	Cell phyones don't work around here except in one spot!! Yah!	_8159180.jpg
_8159182.jpg	Canoing on Lake MacDonald.	Near dusk.
Plum Creek pollution.	Kalispell again.	Montana Traders post sale.
_8169330.jpg	The Great Amerikan Myth....this guy NEVER SERVED in thre military despite his patrtiotism????	Climate change? Are you kidding?
_8169376.jpg	_8169385.jpg	Prosperous Hungry Horse.
Park Entrance.		Aug. 17 We go on a MacDonald cruise.
_	Lake MacDonald Reflecrtions.
	America's	Taliban? Beads and covered hai?
Window boxes and hanging plants at..	MacDonald lodge.	It's goldenrod time!
We thought he was dead, but NO, he was alive!	MOre roadside memorials.	This one is particularly sad!
August 22; The sun rises.	...another farm....not even sure where!	A typical view out the window as another train passes outside.

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