Dave McCoy Photography

Here are some of my own from last August in Montana.

As we said before in a post of Poncho’s bald eagles, the area around Dillon is like a zoo for mountainous wild animals. We are headed up to Dillon sometime soon here for another photo trip so keep an eye out for those pictures and enjoy these.

-Dave

The first shot, above, is of our grandson, Barry McCoy. Barry is Randy’s son and he lives in Dillon. He is a rancher, a cattleman, a trucker, and he helps others with their harvesting. In this photo, he is showing the height of the wheat crop.

Below is the sun setting on the pond behind Poncho’s house. We were out fishing and shooting photos until dark when we got this one. I’ll put up some fishing shots later. We caught some big fish on this trip.

These are beehives. Can you see the bees in the air above the alfalfa and natural grass rolls? This is a hawk taking off from a field near Poncho’s.  Here is a white-tailed fawn hiding in the grass. These are sandhill cranes, singing out. They let you know they’re around, that’s for sure. They screech like crazy. Here is a cool fence out in the mountains. This type of fence seems to be the preferred fence in the Montana high country. You don’t have to pull wires out in the winter, and the animals can get by them easily.  The last two are from the Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns, near Glendale, Mont. Roma, Penny, Beverly, Poncho and I drove there one day from Dillon for a nice day trip. The kilns were used between 1881 and 1900 to produce charcoal that powered the smelter to melt down silver that was mined nearby. Each kiln held 35 cords of wood and it was left to burn slowly for two weeks. 

We ended up with so many great photos from our Glass Mountains’ trip last weekend that it’s going to need a few posts to scratch the surface. Like I said before,  it was one of the best trips we’ve been on in a long time. The flowers were great, the clouds kept the temperature nice and the light good for pictures, and the company was fantastic!

There will be more soon that show off the flowers, but these give another good view on Mammoth Mountain, the Minarets, our lunch stop, and more. Continue on and enjoy.

-Dave

This solar array powered several satellite dishes up high.

That’s not a view you see often.

Check out the road winding along the hillside. That part of the road was really steep and slow-going.

Who would stop to take a picture of a pine cone in the middle of nowhere? Debbie and I both did for good reason. There were no pine trees anywhere near here. The closest was miles away. How did it get here?

They must have planned that one.

Here is a picture Debbie took of our lunch break. She’s become such a great photographer that she is now known as “Anselette” amongst her friends and family.

Here is a preview of coming pictures from this trip. The higher we went, the better the flowers got.