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The odds and ends in the creative  world of Thendara M Kida-Gee.

Montana Agate

When in Montana the one stone to find is Montana Agate. Apparently once prolific in and along the Yellowstone river now very rare indeed. I cheated I purchased thing slices from a couple different rock shops in Montana. Some of it is very scenic and other more patterns, another of nature's little amazements which is hidden in the disguise of just a old grey rock, unassuming until you break it open and slice it thinly then we see the full magic.

purple pepper

Purple Pepper grown in Montana, eaten in Montana.

For such richness this pepper was more like a green pepper in flavoring and not necessarily worth the splurge other then to know that in future unless I need a purple pepper for a photograph I am best sticking with my favorite peppers the red, orange and yellow peppers.

Purple pepper you may be pretty but you don't taste all that.

looks 10 taste 2.

the tone of the pepper does not match the taste - deceptive this purple pepper is.

looking in we see that it's green on the inside, just like a green pepper.

this is in fact the emperors new cloths of green peppers.

Textures of Rock at St Mary's Lake, Montana

windy day at the eastern side of Glacier National Park, to get away from the crowds we headed over to St Mary's Lake where it were peaceful of people but not so much of wind.

Montana's Lake McDonald with Talula

So many lakes, so many not warm enough to entice the adult population into the water.

But I do remember being a kid and nothing would stop me from getting in the water not even the freeze....Talula dared to get into many of the lakes we visited including this, the largest west of the Mississippi.

she can't help herself.

too cold

look at my ripples

Post Lake feet, very, very cold.