What a way to begin a Montana mountain spring evening--with a soft, beautiful sunset.
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Our friends, Jim and Judy Lots, decided a getaway weekend was a good idea for this holiday, so brought some of the family (daughter, Jessie and family, and Hunter, Phil's son) to their favorite Montana mountain resort. Actually, they just come for the cooking!!! And we love having them. Sad to say, Walt is hard at work and is missing out on all this fun.
Here's our firemaker, Greg, getting a good bed of coals for some marshmallow toasting.
Maybe Hunter is feeling some of that mountain evening chill--when a fire feels really good!
It looks like Sophie doesn't even have to toast her marshmallows--takes too much time.
And Bella-with-the-broken-arm will be very adept at one-handed everything before she gets rid of that cast. She managed quite well to get her share of s'mores.
And here's the Coronado family: Beautiful Bella, Somber Sophie, Jessie and Greg. Frankie was fast asleep.
Getting out of Dodge (Salt Lake City) was just the thing for this family.
Judy and Hunter waiting for the perfect coals for their marshmallows.
Love those campfires.
I'm afraid there are more weeds in my rock garden than plants! I hate weeds.
This is the terraced garden in front of the house. I hate weeds.
There will never be weeds in this bed again. I've covered it with fabric and will put down bark.
The weeds are gone--where are the plants??? Guess they haven't popped through yet. More weeds around the outer edge. I'll get those with the weed killer. I hate weeds.
This worked out pretty well. I'm happy. No more weeds here--except in the driveway. . . . I was hoping to also finish the rock garden in the back yard, but had several interruptions during the day, so didn't get back there. Tomorrow. At least two of them are done--that's encouraging.
And this was one of my interruptions when Kirk and Isaac showed up to get the mowers going so I can mow and to get the sprinkler system up and running. Can't believe how dry it is already. I couldn't live here with Walt being gone as he is if I couldn't call on Kirk to keep everything operational. He's the greatest. My miracle worker!! Bless him--and keep him healthy!!!
Not sure this lawn mower is going to make it! At least I never did see flames. He said he would come back and work on it later. . . . It was fun to watch anyway.
We have some of the most amazing skies here in these mountains with the beautiful blue and awesome cloud formations and the light. I love photographing them. (You can click on the image to see it full-size, if you like.)
I took this right at the Price Creek campground area and that's Comet Mountain in the background. There's still a fair amount of snow up there, but not nearly as much as two weeks ago when the byway opened--that according to Betty.
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