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I\u2019m thinking maybe I should start doing something like \u201cphoto Mondays\u201d \u2013 but, me being me, you\u2019d have to expect them sometime Tuesday afternoon<\/b>! \u00a0Anyhow, before the \u201cthinkin\u2019 big thoughts\u201d resumes for the next couple days, I figure I should toss up some photos from a more-than-lovely day out in Montana. But before that, I should note that I had the pleasure of meeting a very cool monk on Saturday. This guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Myself, Charlie, and Konchog Norbu
(I didn\u2019t get the\u00a0maroon\u00a0memo)<\/div>\n
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Sunrise over the Potomac Valley, MT.<\/div>\n
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End of the road, for us. Two Medicine Road just outside of Glacier National Park, east side.<\/div>\n
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Lunch on the Two Medicine River<\/div>\n
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Mount St Nicholas<\/a> \u2013 from the Middle Fork Flathead River<\/a> along Route 2 south of the park. (big thanks to Tony -in comments- for the attribution and correction; speaking of Tony, check out his amazing photography here<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Shootin Julie<\/a> shootin me.<\/div>\n
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Fooling around with camera movement\/blur effects.<\/div>\n
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And a bit more fooling.<\/div>\n
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Snow angel (shot with a polarizer filter<\/a>\"\", as was the river shot above)<\/div>\n
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Lake McDonald<\/div>\n
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Some moss an the captured flitterings of a moth or butterfly in the sun.<\/div>\n
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A cairn on Lake Mcdonald.<\/div>\n
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Sunset over Flathead Lake.<\/div>\n
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And after Flathead, we cruised down to Symes Hot Springs<\/a> and ran into \u2013 who else \u2013 the monk (!) accompanied by a couple of the cool guys from the Ewam Buddha garden<\/a>, soaking it up on their way to a new (\/in the works) retreat center.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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And just this morning I was graced again by Konchog\u2019s presence as he dropped by for coffee en route <\/i>home to Namdroling<\/a>, Bozeman. He was in town to check out the above mentioned Buddha garden and took some time to make some Buddhas<\/a>\u00a0(insert cheesy Zen joke here). And tomorrow Julie and I and the Vipassana group and the UM Campus Sangha will all head down to make some Buddhas ourselves. These are certainly some exciting (Dharma) times for us here in quiet Western Montana.<\/div>\n
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