Pictures that indicate the season...

It is presently Fall.  Here are some examples (Starring Bailey, the landlords dog):

The Back yardage

Arteries
Miss Bailey in full effect
I am officially going to stop combating these text problems.  From now on whatever it decides to be... it will be.

Lots of pics of my backyard

Is it just me or do these leaves look edible?  Like sugary cereal.  I am going to try and eat them tonight.

Hi-fiving trees!

Leaves + light

Behind the backyard.  Don't know if that property belongs to us or not.

Bailey has grown weary of my picture taking.

She finds the squirrel much more entertaining and intriguing,  

Garnet- My first Montana ghost town

Garnet is supposed to be the best preserved ghost town in Montana.  It sits at the top of the garnet range.  It was a gold mining town.  I don't know much else about it except that it burnt down once and was rebuilt before it was abandoned after they cleaned out all the gold.  Some people now live there and restored some of the buildings.  I usually like ghost towns that are left how they were at the time everyone left, but it was cool to see the history laid out and to know the story behind everything.

--The drive up the Garnet Range.  It was hazy so its hard to see, but it's a nice view

--Mossy tree

--Garnet in full effect
--Old

--Mining Cars and the old general store

--This is the Saloon.  It was built in 1898.  People became innibraited here.

--This is the newlywed cabin...apparently

--This is the corner of it.  Sorry for the underline.  I don't know how to stop it!  It makes me want to punch things

--(Punching things is the solution.)  An artifact of some type

--Various miners cabins

--grass and a crapper.  (Damn this underlining!  Punching isn;t working anymore)

--Whoops the cabin is dead.

--This is some sort of machine, which I can only assume performed some sort of function.

--The jail!

--These trees look like gigantic beargrass

--Listening to the beginning of the vice-presidential debate on the way back poisoned this beautiful view

Rattlesnake

I finally made it up into Rattlesnake wilderness.  It is 35,000 acres of wilderness and mountains.  It's only four miles north of Missoula.  I only spent an afternoon up there, but people spend weeks backpacking all around there.  It is prime country from what I hear.  I am hoping to spend more time there.  There are seriously like a gagilion black bears in there.  Scary!  With such limited time, we just went a couple miles up one of the trail to this old cabin that was occupied by the curry family in the late 1800's.

--This is Rattlesnake Creek

--This are very Missoula-ish red and green rocks

--I think this was their root cellar

--And of course, this is Montana so people shot it with guns
 --This is the cabin       

--This doorway became sick and puked

--It appears that Mrs. Curtis enjoyed a white kitchen and blue windows

--I don't know why this is underlined but I cant fix it.  

--It is fall here, but it feels kind of like Washington's winter.  I have decided to call it "Finter"