Snow all week, with rain yesterday, which lasted most of the night. Foy's Lake Road looked like a sandbox -- the County must have laid down a few more layers of gravel. Any driveway, parking lot, or ditch which doesn't drain properly has a thick flat sheet of ice reflecting the blue morning sky. It's supposed to be above freezing all day. The wild food for the Deer is exposed again. Let's hope the herds break up into smaller units, if that means they are getting enough to eat. I spent an hour packing suet for the Birds last night. There is a flock of Robins right out my office window.

Footbarn's Celebration of Theatre: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW! Spitfires of the Spaceways
Watch Dale Arden rescue Flash Gordon for a change!

Charity Alert: Make a resolution as the days get brighter to click on The Hunger Site every day.

In The Community: Glacier Symphony and Chorale this Sunday -- Conductor John Zoltek is playing his new composition, there's a guest violinist, and they're playing Ravel's Bolero. As always, I invite you to take a look at the Hockaday Museum of Art's Website. I'll continue to link to Travel Montana for another week or so.

Media Watch: America's Ballroom Challenge on PBS was pretty darn good, even though I had low expectations for Waltz, Tango, Quickstep etc. I enjoyed the show dances in this episode more than the others so far.
It may have been coincidental, but the dances with the most unadventurous, not to mention WORST, music ended up at the bottom -- Il Divo's recorded version of Nilsson's Without You was even more cringingly ugly than their live performance on Dancing With The Stars. The winning couple took a chance with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, and I'm glad everyone appreciated their verve and daring.
While I was mucking about in the kitchen (see "suet" above), I went through a couple of news/political shows. Stephen Colbert wasn't at his funniest, but there were a few choice moments. Keith Olbermann is best when he exposes the hideous Right-wing liars who have run our country into the ground over the last too-many years.

I need some cheering up!


Buttercup enjoys the cat grass we leave for treats. Her name is not Princess, but that's her job. Remember, you can't spoil a princess!