Great Falls Montana, built up along the banks of the mighty Missouri River, was once the site of five mighty water falls. Discovered and named by Merriweather Lewis and William Clark in 1805, the falls, as you work your way upriver are known as: 1. Big Falls (also...
Do you feel insignificant? Like you have nothing to give that will make any difference at all? I can imagine that the world's shortest river might feel the same way... The Guinness Book of World Records lists the world's shortest river as the Roe River in Great Falls,...
I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I've come to love the fall season is the abundant days of Indian Summer. Now, if any of you are like me, originally from places that don't really have seasons, then this may be a new term to you. Basically, Indian Summer...
I am learning that every part of landscaping, from the borders to the dirt to the mulch to the plants themselves, is an incredibly expensive hobby. As a result of my recent education on the subject, the yard of my new house, the same one I had dreamed of landscaping,...
Traveling through the great plains of the United States and Canada is an eye-opening experience. With the twinned highways, towns, cities, dams, etc. that scream of modern civilization, it is sometimes hard to believe that this was once the home of tens of thousands...
You can't visit the state of Montana without encountering the bison. The state was home to literally millions of plains bison, as well as to the Native Americans who hunted them. Of course, this wasn't my first encounter with the creatures. I had, however, always...
The great plains of Canada and the United States once teemed with wild Bison. The bison had been hunted by the first nations people of the plains for hundreds of years, but the settlement of the plains by white man marked the beginning of the end of the plains Bison....
I have a landscaping plan. I want to put patio stone around the base of my circular clothesline, I want to build a planter box between the patio stone and the house, and I want to fill that planter with irises. Not the ordinary blue kind that bloom in the spring and...
"I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys." (Song of Solomon 2:1 NIV) I had to do a double take when I read this the other day. I mean, we are told to be humble, right? To not flaunt ourselves? But this woman, whoever it is that Solomon is writing about in the...
We couldn't initially identify the strange creature feeding at the bottom of the harbour at Anse d'Arlet in Martinique; but upon closer observation, we realized it was a marine turtle, more than likely a Green Sea Turtle. The reason we didn't immediately recognize it...