A super cool picture

Pity eastern Montana is so drab and ugly. (SARCASM FONT NEEDED)

That is lovely. We have been having an actual fall this year and I am so enjoying it.

Don't post pictures like this!!

Last thing we need is any more California tourists seeing how beautiful Southeastern Montana is.

Thanks folks, glad you enjoyed the photo. Yes, Eastern Montana has its moments!!

Stole it for a background...

Very nice pic. Makes me want to get a line in.

Saturday Morning

my favorite little spot,
rural powder river county, Montana.

most folks see this county by driving down the highway.....they never see the real beauty....

AWESOME PHOTOS!

aquaman attempting to ford the powder river in a chevy.....he was not successful.

Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

Amen!

Sunset on a cloudy day at Spotted Eagle

MRH: That is a stunningly beautiful picture.

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Thanks Richard. I decided to just drive out and wait this evening to see if the sun would show up at sunset. Guess what, it did!

We have been having an actual autumn. Leaves are turning, geese are flying overhead, and it hasn't dumped a load of snow on anything. I am enjoying it. We so rarely get fall. Usually, we get a few hours one afternoon between summer and winter.

Beautiful photos, MR.H. I took several like these before I left and, like the admirer above, used them as the wallpaper on my computer. How are the trails holding up out there?

We just spent a wonderful weekend in Miles City an took a drive out to Spotted Eagle yesterday. The colors were glorious. I am so impressed wit all the improvements out there. We also went to the Pumpkin Patch off Sunset Drive and the Tongue River Winery. The decorations for the fall festival were better than ever. Last night went to the Democrat's Oktoberfest at the VFW . The brats, sauerkraut and hot German potato salad prepared by Susan Galbraith were superb. Finally we enjoyed pumpkin ice cream at the art auction at the pumping Plant. I really miss and love Miles City. It was hard to come back to Denver today.

Southeastern Montana is beautiful, and I've always thought it was the prettiest part of the state....after all, a mountain is a mountain is a mountain.....you can find them anywhere in the west! But the Yellowstone Hills, the Pine Hills and the valley where Miles City sits is beauty at its best.....The Sacramento Valley looks much like it, with the Coast Range, the Sierras and then the valley.....looks a lot like home, which is why I love it, too.... Spotted Eagle Lake was not there when I lived in Miles City....what gorgeous pictures!

Was the Interstate in place when you lived here. I have always thought, or been told, that they dug it while building the Interstate.

I can remember as a child going to Billings on the old highway, crossing under the bridge in Forsyth, next to the trains, and somewhere before Hysham Hills entering the Interstate. That would be in the early 70's. I have no memories of Spotted Eagle at that time, but then I was young, 6 or 7 I believe.

Yes, Spotted Eagle lake is the gravel pit left by construction of the interstate in 1964. It filled up with water and a few folks were using it as their private swimmin' hole for a few years, then someone promotion-minded got wind of it and whoo-ee, here we are.

No, the freeway was not there when I grew up in Miles City. Spotted Eagle lake now sits I believe, where the Cheyennes camped every summer. They came up from Lame Deer, I think, and stayed for the summer. You could see their tepees from City Park ( where the water towers are)., and the the women liked to bing their children to Foster's Drug for ice cream cones. They were part of Miles City every summer! Naming the lake, Spotted Eagle, was certainly appropriate.

I also remember seeing the Cheyenne in the early 60's. I feel I recall teepees west of the golf course near the river. I recall seeing the Cheyenne on Main wrapped in blankets. There was also a Cheyenne who was at the gas station across from the old post office in the side lot. He free handed beautiful paintings and sold them on the spot. We had 2 in the family. I am curious why the Cheyenne left Lame Deer for the summer. Seems like the same weather to me...

Nancy, you are correct about the Cheyenne tepees near the Tongue River, and seeing them on Main Street wrapped in blankets...as kids we always wondered how they stood the summer heat with them on! Why they came to Miles City every summer? Maybe it was their idea of a vacation get-away!! Things were green and shady, and it was a change of scenery, and they bothered no one, so they were welcome. One, named "Sofie Wooden Leg", came down Knight St. in her Connastoga wagon to visit with my Mother every time she was in Miles City, and as she was elderly, and actually had a wooden leg, her trips became fewer and fewer. On her last visit he brought my Mother a pair of hand beaded moccasins as a gift...... My mother was very touched, as she simply thought of Sofie as a mother herself, and there was a common bond between them.....
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Sunrise 11-06-13.