Along the Gradyent

Imagine yourself a century ago in the Pacific Northwest -- you are a mine owner, operator or engineer. Mining was not an exercise dominated ...

Our first snowfall came to Bozeman last week. That means the family history blogging season opens early this year. So here we go.  A. The...

Saturday Pictures Saturday September 13, 2014 With our German exchange student, we have a full house! Grotto Falls, Hyalite Creek, ...

A couple of weeks ago I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning by a phone call that by the caller ID I could see was from a familiar n...

They will be caucusing before the month is up!

Greetings! You can get more than a mile high here legally now, but that's not what this post is about. We jumped into the Jeep Tuesday...

We rolled right through summer with a strong August. Year over year, our August 2014 monthly page views were 94 percent better than the same...

You know the ice bucket challenge has made it to your household, when you go to fill a water glass with ice, and instead of clink, clink in ...

Serving ice cream bars, sandwiches and cones to grades K through 5 at Longfellow Elementary School, Bozeman, Montana, August 28, 2014. ...

If my father, George W Foster, were alive today, he would be 105 years old. Happy birthday in the great beyond, George Foster! Herbert ...

Paul Bunyan statue, Brainerd, Minn . Bathgate, N. Dak. Lest there be any doubt as to my pop culture ignorance , I chanced to look throug...

Saturday Pictures on Monday August 24, 2014 Nothing like a little August snow to keep the spirits bright! The antique coffee ...

From time to time we have blogged about the sacrifices made when we moved to Montana, notable among them,  forgoing Dunkin' Donuts . We ...

Mountain base at Big Sky. The ridge at Bridger Bowl.

Picture of the Bob Wards retail gun counter, from our inaugural blog post. I started with a post about a pre-Christmas shopping trip . ...

Why Montana people say, besides it is beautiful, outdoorsy, invigorating and real? Additional reasons lie in the map. According to th e...