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Watching the snow melt yesterday, and anticipating new snow. We need cold -yes COLD- because we need mountain snowpack to last into next summer, or the rivers die and the fish with them. As David James Duncan said: "...The trout that was the mayfly that was the river that was the creeks that was last year's snowpack that was last year's skies ( Read more... )

Ok, so the challenge I mentioned yesterday starts today. Question #1 is "Trace the water that you drink from precipitation to tap." On this side of the Continental Divide, our watersheds, including the valley's Ten Mile Creek and Prickly Pear Creek, flow into the greater Missouri River watershed. This is one reason why we in Helena are not part of ( Read more... )

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Average snowpack near 100 percent or above
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The GOOD news for yesterday was that western Montana's snowpack was renewed, by a snowfall (see story below). We depend on the snowpack for our summer moisture, to feed the streams and rivers at a steady rate and to help prevent forest fires. In the morning it was 9 degrees, with the wind chill pushing it to 4 below. I bundled up and walked the ( Read more... )

Surfing around on YouTube, I came across the Greek group Daemonia Nymphe, which uses ancient Greek instruments and texts to create their music. The first is an Orphic text summoning Selene, the Moon Goddess. The second is the calling of the Naiades, fresh-water Nymphs who inhabited the rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs of the ( Read more... )