leaving Montana

after several days it was time to head home



if you have never been to montana you are missing some real beauty





loved this little bee and flower



coming in for a landing




montana where one moment it is bright and sunny

to this in a moment



anaconda the reason our family lives in the pacific northwest


one of the tallest smoke stacks in the us can be seen for miles





http://visitmt.com/listing/categories_NET/MoreInfo.aspx?SiteID=1&IDRRecordID=3080
The old Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack, completed in 1919, is one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world at 585 feet. The inside diameter is 75 feet at bottom, tapering to 60 feet at the top. In comparision, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall. 

What's the buzz??

Caught this with my phone. A bee in flight almost to the flower. The flower is the Washington state flower a rhododendron.


My belly dancer photo is posted in the following blog check It out



http://blog.sassyangelac.com/2012/06/01/poetry-friday--spicy-dancer.aspx

what is the buzz all about

found this bee hanging out on a thistle up on hurricane ridge.  he was HUGE.

havign some internet issues so sorry for the short post.

guilty pleasure

A song that is a guilty pleasure.


One of my favorite bands

Probably have a couple of their songs in this challenge

guilty pleasure because the girl in this band and video is HOT and I am NOT except in my DREAMS.

do you know yet???

Are you checking out the other blogs for their songs?? still time to join along.

ok so here is the song from youtube

Black eyed Peas - Imma Be.

sunflower

this honeybee was busy at work gathering up the last of the pollen before winter hits.

another experiment with photoshop elements and lighting same shot as above only highlighted.

couldn't get a shot of these flowers without the bee in them.  guess he wanted to be the star. 

bee

while capturing this shot I saw this.......

and cropping in a little closer.....

i saw this.  do your business little bee.

but when reviewing the shots i found this and was so excited.

this bee was on a mission.  He isn't as clear as I would like but then I wasn't focusing on him either so I was excited to get the shot.

9 bee walking

one more page that I did because it is one of my favorites. As you can see I don't journal much at all but I did do a little on this one. one reason I don't is my printing is not pretty yeah I know I could type it up but really I just don't care for journaling much in my books. don't tell any creative memory people that shhhhh.

Anyhow this is one of my favorite pages because of the story behind it. here are a three 16 year old, bored and inventing things to do. So they capture a bee. Yes a big old bumblebee. the captured him/her (how do you tell?) by putting finding one on a flower and then putting a plastic bag over it. then took some string and made a little lasso. and fished it in the bag till it was around the bee. I know I know very inhumane but hey they weren't out starting fires or drinking and bee's only live so long so I went with it.

After lassoing it they took it out of the bag and starting walking it down the street. this just totally cracked me up. Leave it to a teenager to think up something like this.