July 11, 2025 With my oldest son and family visiting,
we have revisited Blacktail Mountain, and added North Chilco Mountain
to the peaks attained yesterday. There were lots of small
huckleberries on the trail to keep our mouths active...
This western flycatcher is nesting against our house...
Rare urban photo, alley in Sandpoint with high school murals.
Celebrating
the "new" (on the left) Edison diamond disc player, and the old (being
determined to be be unfixable) player on the right, at our museum
My son picking huckleberries near Priest Lake
The quaint lake cabin of yore on Spirit Lake near Brickel Creek
The view toward Mt. Spokane up Brickel Creek
Sometimes totally miffed photos are enjoyable as art...
View towards Pend O'Reille Lake from North Chilco Mountain.
This evergreen flower grew better on this rock than on the surrounding dirt, on Chilco Mountain.
This alpine lupine has the narrowest leaves of any lupine I've seen.
This is a tiny butterfly, about the size of a quarter.
Paintbrush with golden spider. With female hummingbird
Upper Twin Lake, with new patch of nonnative water lilies (likely to grow larger yearly)
July 23, 2025 This hummingbird nest is about 7 feet off the ground, and totally accessible for photography... This is the baby:
Books read
Dodger
by Terry Pratchett, historical fantasy using a Dickensian character
interacting with Dickens and other historical figures... Quite
enjoyable, although not of Diskworld.
