December 31, 2024 - Happy Birthday to my lifelong fishing buddy.  October 1979.

 

 December 30, 2024 - Little Tongue River Valley.

December 29, 2024 - Black Hat, graphite, 1979.

 

 December 28, 2024 - North Fork willows.

December 27, 2024 - Whitetail Buck.

 

December 26, 2024 - Some Christmas Cards, new and old.

 

December 25, 2024 - Merry Christmas to all.

And a photo for the kids.  I was up at dawn this morning and thought I heard the faint jingle of sleigh bells on the wind.  I looked in the direction of the sound and just caught a glimpse of Santa and his reindeer over Bozeman Point heading back to the North Pole.  Then they were gone in a second.

December 24, 2024 - Our Three Wise Men on Christmas Eve.

 

December 23, 2024 - The Eve before Christmas Eve.

 

December 22, 2024 - Sunrise out front. 

December 21, 2024 - Celebrating the longest night of the year.

 

 December 20, 2024 - Christmas moose.

December 19, 2024 - We cut a Lodgepole Pine Christmas tree this year.

 

December 18, 2024 - Some Christmas tree candidates on the mountain.

 

December 17, 2024 - A trip up the mountain to find a Christmas tree this week.

 

December 16, 2024 - December Magpie.

 

 December 15, 2024 - Before and after the Elk Fire at the mouth of Wolf Canyon.

December 14, 2024 - My father's birthday.  U.S. Navy Dress Whites, 19 years old, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, 1944.

 December 13, 2024 - Christmas tree hunting 43 years ago.

December 12, 2024 - Steamboat Rock in the Bighorns.

 

 December 11, 2024 - Sunrise over Graham Hill.

December 10, 2024 - Snow day.

 

December 9, 2024 - Sheep Ridge on the floor of the Bighorn Basin.  The Bighorn River flows through the notch in the ridge.

 

December 8, 2024 - Sunset behind a fire swept ridge.

 

December 7, 2024 - Pearl Harbor Day; 83 years ago today in 1941.  Photos of my father's, stationed at Pearl Harbor in 1944.

 

 December 6, 2024 - Bald Eagle at the top of Graham Hill.

December 5, 2024 - Sunrise over Doubledare last month.

 

December 4, 2024 - Mule Deer Buck on Tripledare.

 

December 3, 2024 - Happy 5th Birthday to my Tennessee girl.

 

December 2, 2024 - Looking across the Bighorn Basin from the slopes of Little Bald Mountain to the Rocky Mountains beyond.

 

December 1, 2024 - December Whitetail.