Meet Me In Montana

24th of July picnic with friends that we have known for years.

Images of our summer in Montana. I am still having trouble uploading alot of my pictures. I can't get any of Flathead Lake - so when I can figure it out I will post them.

"CATS" the musical

If you have not been down to see a show at the Tuacahn - you really should. These shows are fantastic! This year it is "Cats" "Crazy About You" and " Disney's Tarzan" - which has not shown anywhere else off Broadway except here. Seriously, come down and see one of these. Next year, "The Wizard of Oz", "Hairspray" and "Grease" will be playing. Can't wait. The actors have actually played on Broadway and have the most unbelievable voices. Wow!!!!

The two "wild cats"!

Before the show.

A cat's eye view!!!!

Ahhhhh!!!!! the misters are on!

The stage.

Enjoying the show!

"Maia" the toughest of all the cats!

"Mr Mistoffelees" the magical cat!

Me and "Skimbleshanks" the railroad cat!

"Bustopher Jones" the cat about town!

Summer Posts

For some reason, I was able to download a few pictures of the trip to Missoula in July. I have been trying to get more pictures but I can't so as soon as I figure out the problem I will post all of them.

Farmers Market - the "M" - Dr. Doolittle

We went to one of Missoula's many Farmers Markets every saturday morning.

On a hike to the "M" I was reminded just how beautiful Missoula is.

From the "M"

Mom, me, Sherry and our cousin Don.

Dr. Doolittle (a.k.a. Ron) and his pets.

This little guy came in under the door in the living room. I would have freaked but Ron played with it a while and then let him go outside. Anyone coming to visit need not worry - he will be too big now to get under the door again. At least, that is what Ron told me!!!

Izzy has gotten huge. She - and yes we found out that she is a she - waits outside the door for Ron to come out and feed her.

ACROPHOBIA!!!!!

"Angels Landing" is not a hike for anyone with a fear of heights. This is one of the most thrilling and unique hiking trails in any National Park. The trail to the top takes you along a narrow spine of a highly exposed rock formation. After a strenuous hike on a steep and winding path that in some places you have to pass other hikers with a 1000 foot drop off one side and another 1000 foot on the other side. Just before you reach "Scouts Lookout" you climb a series of 21 switchbacks that zigzag up to the lookout.

I had a death grip on the fence before we even got to "Scouts Landing" - the stopping point for those who don't want to go the last 0.5 mile to the summit.

Halfway up - hanging on to this chain as the only thing keeping me from falling - fear took over and although I was almost there, I couldn't force myself another step. the wind was gusting about 60-65 miles an hour.

A view from the top. Look at that tiny little river and road. We took Hello Kitty with us because we knew she would be brave - and she was.

Looking back up to where we had been.

A wonderful dinner at "Oscars" and then "How to Train Your Dragon" at the Imax in 3D finished the great day.

Wyoming Wildlife Magazine

Remember back in November, I submitted photos to the Wyoming Wildlife Magazine Photo Contest? Well I didn't hear back from them and was VERY disappointed. I thought my pictures were pretty good. When I took them down to have them printed off for the contest, the guy at Camera Country asked me why I had my camera set on such a low resolution. Well, not knowing that much about my camera or sd cards I didn't think about the quality of the picture - rather - on one setting I could get 35 pictures on one card and on another setting I could get 500 pictures on the same card. So...

... I opted for lots of pictures. We were in Yellowstone - no computer - and I couldn't download the pics and I wanted to take a lot of pictures. Anyway, the pictures were not the best quality.

I got online and looked up previous winners from past years and was really "put out" when I realized that pro's could enter the contest and the winners were all photographers that had studios and were REALLY GOOD. So hope pretty much went out the window. Well, February (when we were suppose to hear if our pictures had been selected) came and went. I knew that they would return the entries sometime in April or May.

On Tuesday morning of this week, I got up and looked out the window to see what kind of weather we were having so I could dress to walk. There was a package sitting by the door so I went out and got it and saw that it was from the magazine. I just assumed that they were returning my LOSING photos. When I opened it up, I found 5 Wyoming Wildlife Magazines. Then I thought, Hmmmm they must send them to everyone that submitted photos. So I sat down and started looking through the pictures. I got to the "Color Recreation" section and my heart just about jumped out of my chest. There was one of my pictures - and the caption "Anglers on the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, by Bonnie Romney; Nikon D40.

I couldn't believe it! There were 366 photographers that entered the contest. 2,334 pictures submitted.

They chose 45 pictures for the magazine . There were a total of 28 photographers in the magazine. Some had several pictures (over half of them were professional photographers.) I googled the names and found that out. But who's counting. Well, I guess I am:)

Needless to say, I have been overly excited. I sent a magazine to Bryan and to Clint and didn't want to say much about winning until they got their magazines.

So thanks for being great subjects to photograph Bryan, Clint and Ron. I wonder if Idaho has a wildlife magazine, cause now I am really excited for McCall in August.

I am officially a blog - slacker! We are flying to Florida next week so hope to have new pictures then.