Sunrise without the window

I figured this was better without the window.  

Glacier National Park 5:46a.m.
This post could alternately be titled "The benefits of jet lag"

Through a window

"The Ranch"

View from a window at the family owned Homestead in Montana

Never was the grass so green

the sky so blue

the waves of grain so amber

and purple mountain majesty...

a little slice of Americana.

But seriously, 

My great grandfather homesteaded.  He was a farmer and a cattle rancher

My great uncle was a cattle rancher

my mom's cousins are cattle ranchers

the blue sky and green grass are making me want to be a cattle rancher.

PS does anyone else get fat on vacation? 

through a window double dose, Marocco

 From the window of our riad to the only tree we saw in all the Medina in Fez.

In Moulay Idriss, view to the entrance columns of the tomb of the great grandson of Mohammed.

more exotic foods

I found this beauty in the Supermarket in Fez, Marocco. 
No one could tell me what it was called.   But they did tell me it was like a melon and cucumber. 
It wasn't as good as the cherries.
But it was pretty.

The best friend I made...

I say:  I have a fancy wedding to go to this summer.  It says on the invitation that "the mother of the bride will be wearing a hat". 

She says:  Oh you can borrow one of my dresses.  Do you want to come and try them on next week? 

I say: Sure, you probably know much better than I or B does about what a girl should wear to a "chapeau" wedding. 

I think: I doubt my slightly-taller-than-a-woodland-creature-self will fit into your average height, average weight and average chest-size dresses (damn you and your averageness!).  And I fear you have floral prints. 

Next week at her house...

She says:  Let me just get my dresses out of the closet and we'll take a look. 

I think:  How am I going to politely say no without offending her floral-print-pattern-taste.  Maybe I'll just take one with me and then say I found something else.

Unzipping the plastic protector.  

               Gold and velvet hangers Louis Vuitton.  

                                             Dress labels: Kenzo, Christian Dior.  

I think:  Oh right.   I am the jerk thinking that you wear curtain dresses. You work at LVMH.

She says:  What size shoe do you wear?

I think:  Are you my fairy godmother?

I say: 36


She says:  I'm 36.5 but let's take a look, we might be able to find something.   

Cue closet filled with shoe boxes full of delicately made Louis Vuitton shoes.
 
I think: I love you. 

Let's just file this under "other things your kids don't need"

a 349 euro sweater

Unicorns

Do you have nuns and priests where you live? 

I do.

I saw one yesterday

Like seeing a unicorn in the metro.