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week 14

It should be spring. Right? I mean, it’s early April now. Seriously, this is getting O-L-D… I feel like I’ve never spent so much time wishing and hoping for spring, literally counting the days until I see a robin. Or a sprig of green grass. Or a sign.. just ONE sign, of spring.  Okay, I digress. I know it’s coming but those of us who live in Western Montana know how much patience it can take to make it through the winter months.  So much patience that a new business called Staycations that specializes in little mini- stay in a room vacations where you go and sit  in a beachchair in the sand (yes, SAND that’s heated even) under UV lights and a watch beach scene playing on a big flat screen TV, thrives in this town. It’s bad.

Anyways, we are making it through. Martin always goes into some kind of home improvement mode- this winter he’s finishing the basement laundry room. And I am specializing in Finley-care. I’ve been using my camera quite a bit but I have to say that the gloomy grey days aren’t always conducive to my creative juices. So, here are few tries from the week…