Well, things have gotten back to normal, and never in my life have I been so glad to be in Wisconsin. I'll tell ya, the west just isn't what I remember it being. Of course I just might have been there at the absolute wrong time, but holy cow, I lived in Montana two different times and never was it like that. Now it was scorching hot, everything burnt brown and thick smoke everywhere. Last Tuesday when I left the motel to drive over to my sister's there was FIRE ASH on my truck, it was THAT BAD. I listened to the local Montana news and it was all air quality HAZARDOUS. It made me feel less than good, with coming from an elevation in Wisconsin of like 150 ft to a mile high, I'm not acclimated to that, then through in that ungodly thick smoke and man... I was feeling half a bubble off to say the least. So as much as I hated to I cut my visit short a couple days and headed back east. Got back to Wisconsin and everything was GREEN and lush and the air was crisp Fall clean and almost sweet in comparison.
I took a bunch of pics and I want to share some of them with folks. When I get a little extra time here I'll get them loaded up to IBB and post a few.
Last edited by High_Plains_Drifter; 09-13-2017 at 09:07 PM.
My cowboy nephew standing by an abandoned house on the ranch...
You can really see how bad the smoke was in this pic. That's the Sphinx Mountain in the background that you can barely see. Looking straight in that direction is Yellowstone Park, the NW corner of WY, about 50 miles away...
My nephew's latest addition to his truck collection... I kid him about the Fords but he loves them, and he loves them big. This is front of my older sister's house in Sheridan, MT...