This year has just a few, colorful gardening successes for me. Usually I have plenty of flowers and vegetables, but the only things I can take pride in have been my simple flower baskets and pots. How is your garden growing?
On Monday afternoon, after a very windy but mostly blue sky day, the Gallatin Valley and surrounding areas became engulfed in that notorious haze of wildfire smoke.
Extremely gusty winds and high temperatures will create dangerous conditions across most of Montana throughout Monday. Expect wind gusts up to 65 MPH and temperatures in the 90s and triple digits.
Sustained high temperatures and low flows are a bad combo for Montana's fish, so Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is enacting "Hoot Owl" restrictions on portions of two rivers.
Let's be clear: these people are not our kind of people. If they didn't have something to complain about, they'd have nothing to say at all. Yellowstone National Park has experienced early season high traffic, followed by historic flood damage this year.