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National Bison Range
10 Apr 2008
Bison were grazing on the hills. This is what it would have looked like before settlers came west. There is nothing to interrupt the view.
Fishing in the Bitterroot
10 Apr 2008
This is another part of my Montana sketchbook. Today we went on a float trip with Wapiti Waters and our guide was Jay and his dog Ruby. We floated from Darby to Wally takeout and it was about 11 miles and fished the entire time (a lunch break was provided). I hooked into a 23" Brown Trout and hauled in 2 small cutthroats and hooked an 18 inch trout. Bryan had more fish but I had the biggest hit of the day. I learned the fly fishing technique of stripping in, mending the line for dry fly fishing. Jay observed that the fish were eating golden stone flies and tied a fly on for us. We fished from 9:30 am to 7:30pm and got back in time for dinner on the deck: a delicate beef dinner with wild morel sauce, corn, green beans, salad and homemade bread then blueberry custard for dessert
Montana sketchbook
10 Apr 2008
I was reminded of our trip to Montana when I received a letter in the mail yesterday that the lodge is for sale. Here are a few pages from my sketchbook: Sunday July 27, 1997- Today after french toast we hiked just over a mile or so to a waterfall on the property. There were "shoots" of water on the flat rocks that one could swim in but the water was too cold. We ate raspberries and saw ripe thimbleberries. We also saw a male rufus Hummer 3 1/2 inches, a Pine Grosbeak and a male evening Grosbeak. I could identify some of the plants: Beargrass, Sulfur buckwheat, Baneberry (poisionous) woods strawberry, raspberries, huckleberries,Fireweed, Horsemint (looks like bee balm). I pressed some twin flower in the book. So many things that I saw I couldn't identify.
Well it is about time
11 Feb 2008
This past year has been all about change. We started the year off with a career change for Bryan, got our house ready to be sold, the big move to Denver and now the launch of my new site and blog. This will showcase the very latest new things that I have been up. My focus these past few months have been learning XHTML, XML, CSS Flash. I did the site design myself and now it is live. While I love technology, I still enjoy sketching and working with handmade works of art. The blog will be mostly a showcase of my sketches and my fine art. Here is a sketch from one of my trips to Dominican Republic. On this cold February day enjoy a bit of summer.
Becky
Vegetarian Times
26 Jan 2007
Loved Loved Loved working with this magaazine.