Wildlife: Regular visits by hummingbirds, especially in the evening. It looks like the Loons have moved back to Big Foy's Lake -- distant calls, but no sightings for weeks.

Weather: A perfect summer day on Tuesday. Clouds are gathering on the western horizon today.

Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!

In The Community: "Procrastination Blues" at the Hockaday -- Monday was supposed to be the deadline for the Lens On Montana photo show. The pictures shoulda been ready to hang too. Well, a whole lotta stuff came in Tuesday, with almost as many excuses as there were photos! They'll all be hanging up by August 5th. Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.

Media Watch: Speak Easily from 1932 with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante. An outhouse special -- it's really sad that Keaton, who made some of the greatest films of all time, fell so far down after his heyday in the 20's. You can blame alcoholism, I guess, for some of his problems -- but that movie just plain sucked -- it was about a theatre show that sucked too. You'd think they could do better with Jimmy Durante in the cast, but they didn't.
It bore a family resemblance to 42nd Street, being a backstage comedy -- there was even a blustery artistic director ala Warner Baxter (musta been a social stereotype then), but that's damning it with very faint praise.
It was part of a TCM series of flicks featuring Thelma Todd -- she was sexy, beautiful, and funny, but is famous today mostly for being found dead in a still-unsolved Hollywood mystery.
Other movies she made included Horsefeathers and Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers, plus the first movie version of Dashell Hammett's Maltese Falcon, featuring Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, and Una Merkel.
One web page: Denny Jackson's Thelma Todd Page
Another page: Thelma Todd