Big Sky Country

I think the phrase “Big Sky Country” is trademarked by Montana (no, I’m not kidding) but the sky in the west is, well, bigger.

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That’s right over our back fence… yes, the weather *has* been a bit unsettled this week. Weather is also insanely localized; one day I was downtown, nice and dry – rode my bike home (maybe six blocks away), and all the streets were wet.

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We took a short drive up into the mountains on the weekend – you can sit and watch the thermometer drop as you gain altitude. All of the snow up there is gone.

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This is a cool shot – from the LaSal forest, looking down into Castle Valley. It’s not fog, it’s not smog, it’s not smoke – it’s heat haze. I think.

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