Standing in the swarm
On a warm June day, at our farm in the Mission Valley, I was watching my husband and son play in the yard, honeybees from our two colonies buzzing nearby. Suddenly, my attention was captured by a steady increase in the number of bees on the air, catching and refracting sunlight with their golden bodies . . .
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Flocked in a field
Red-winged blackbirds are a common species in Montana and I’d seen plenty of them together, particularly near ponds and lakes. But in winter, they can flock in congregations of millions of birds that include other species of blackbirds and starlings.
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How Do Montana’s Moose measure up?
They were an elegant pair. The sunlight reflected off their caramel-colored backs, while the mother kept close to her calf and kept a wary eye on us until she was sure we weren’t going to follow.
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Shades of Gray
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.
It is said that the color spectrum holds infinite shades of gray. To simplify things, humans have created a digital palette that includes 256 of them. Eleven versions are named in these pages. The twelfth is absent, to remind us of all we cannot name.
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