The Empire State, Three views.

Here's three scenes featuring the Empire State Bulding, a New York legend.

Lovely O'Canada

I'm well behind in posting these images, but my computer is finally up and rolling at 120%. So, my trip to Canada. What an amazing time. Bill and Adrienne were the finest of hosts and treated us like royalty. We did so many great things, yet still had time to relax and make great meals, even watched a movie. One evening we made sangria with fresh fruit...it was tops. Many thanks to both Bill and Adi for their generosity, and to Celene for being a great travel partner (my last trip to a foreign country with a woman was questionable, at best). heh

Their town (Trail, B.C.) is right on the Columbia River, which is massive and fast. In many ways the town is quite like Livingston, but the elevation is such that their garden zone is way different than our own. Lush and vibrant, more trees than one could count - and of every variety of leaf and needle both. They were just starting to turn, but not too much. I'm sure it's beautiful right now - both summer and autumn colors at once. I can't wait to make the trip again someday.

This is absolutely the longest blog caption in history. To match, here are a 'few' of the great things I got to see...

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La Triade

Cre's description couldn't be more dead-on. Not only is Cre a talented photographer, but he's an amazing graphic artist and now we all know that he can write to capture a great scene in a single paragraph. Thanks for the fine words, bro. These are my favorite shots from the Sunday Sunflower adventure. The horse, I know, it's out of place...but THAT EYE just sticks with me.

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Wander slowly through the fields....

Trespassing on a Sunday evening is always a guaranteed good time.

It is pretty hard to find a spot on the west side of the Bridgers that doesn't have a house or structure on it. The mountains, old farms and fields are very scenic and beautiful, but unfortunately you can't escape the amount of development on that side of the Gallatin valley.

A typical LPS rendevous includes speeding down dirt roads in Code red's rallie Suby, with blaring music and camera's hanging out of the windows. Random unnanouced slamming of breaks, ebrake slides and whipping a "bitch" is accepted and encouraged. When the charriot stops, we jump out exposing to the world a cloud of smoke, a blairing electronic rhythm, and cameras rolling. The journey is always as fun as the finished photo.

Sunflower Field

Another photo outing with Chris and Cody.

More from the Last Frontier

More random shots from throughout one of our most photogenic states! Hope everyone is enjoying the dregs of summer. JB