August 19, 2024

Cool Morning
Bozeman, Montana
2024

If you live in one place long enough your appreciation of the surrounding views can become a little jaded after a while. For me that’s somewhat the case in regard to our mountain home. In theory I appreciate the views all the time but in practice I don’t always pay much attention to them; it takes some special circumstances to make me stop while I’m out doing whatever the chores of the day are to just appreciate my surroundings. This was the case just the other day. It was a cool morning after a string of hot days, enhanced by partly cloudy skies and a slight breeze. The trees and greenery looked lush despite the heat, and the distant Absaroka mountains looked mysteriously alluring in the morning haze that was actually haze due to moisture in the air rather than the forest fire smoke that has plagued us off and on for a number of weeks.