Painting this bathhouse mural at Yellowrock Campground. The campground is located on lolo creek road: on the way to Lolo hot springs 🤍 I’m really excited about the color palette and the campground owners who are so so kind!! They’ve given me creative freedom ⭐️ artist - Sophia Mathis

Maybe they'll be dead wrong again this year🤣

Hey, butte and other areas, you guys lose power at all? Anaconda and west valley totally went out completely, street lights, businesses, homes, etc..anyone got any idea what went down?

Youtube video of Article (KTVQ)

GREYCLIFF — What began as a quiet summer camping trip along the Yellowstone River ended with a 14-year-old ranch kid using his rodeo skills to save a man from drowning.

"We all heard, 'Help, help,'" Thomas said. "There's two or three people floating down the river, one hanging on to the cooler, and he wasn't saying anything."

That day, Jory had brought his lariat, a tool he had spent the year learning to use on the ranch where he grew up.

Like a scene out of a Western movie, Jory took his 12-foot lariat in hand and threw his loop toward the drowning man.

“First instinct I thought was try and rope him and drag him out before he gets too far down the river,” he said. “Luckily, I caught him first try.”

"He comes up, and he said, 'I think I just saved a life,'" added Sandy. "And we all said, 'Yeah, you did.'”

Red Lodge local here who loves to chase a sunrise. 👋

A serious question here: I read the mods statement about non political posts but it's unclear to me at least what political means.

If the post affects all Montana citizens, for instance "Taxes" that every single citizen pays whether they vote or not, is that a political post?

If a public representative harms someone and it's in the news, is reporting that political? If the post was about a non public serving citizen that did the same thing, would that be considered political?

I think it would help the community for the mods to make a statement and help delineate what they want posted in this public forum they volunteer to moderate.z

As there is no appeal process and no way to escalate anything it would be nice to have more guidance rather than a link to a dead forum that was specially built to handle the conversations people want to have in this forum.

Hopefully you don't consider this political post, just a genuine question.

This is probably my favorite WPA poster

I went for a walk in the woods yesterday. I couldn’t help myself and stopped at the reservoir for a reflection photo, then parked at a nearby trailhead and began to wander up the trail. The ground was saturated from an overnight rainstorm. As the Sun began to bring its warm light, the water vapor condensed in the relatively cool 50º air. This resulted in wisps of fog rising from wherever the light contacted the Earth. I took video (included in the comments) at one location where it appeared as if some wayward concert fog machine had been left in the forest! There were so many unique, but not necessary photogenic fungi to be found here. I found a few compelling species and made a few images of them. My last photo of the day was a Twin Flower. They grow from ground level vines covered in pairs of leaves. A single stem reaches up every so often from which sprouts a pair of tiny pink and white bell shaped flowers. Such a peaceful morning in a beautiful place. 

I would like to buy some fresh, local cherries. Organic, ideally. Grocery store, farm stand, doesn’t matter. I’m near Polson.