Beautiful scenery!

Montana has some great scenery. I was out there a few years ago for a friend's wedding.

So beautiful...

And so ripe for drilling and mining and exploiting...

I see a towering cumulonimbus cloud in forming behind those mountains. While watching Weather Nation over the weekend I noticed that there were some severe thunderstorms forming over in the Northern Inter Mountain region of the Rockies in south east BC and SW Alberta on radar, so I take it that this was recent?


Sorry to hear that you had to change your plans, seems like Covid19/20 ( In actuality it's the almost entirely the fault of many of the state and various branches of federal government and the shitty way they're handling this p(L)andemic (now endemic) that's making everything in life so terrible right now! ) appears to be ruining everything this year! Still, it's times like these to be grateful to live in the USA, because of it being so big and spread out there are plenty of has places like Montana that are equally beautiful and amazing to travel to.

This was just a couple days ago. :)

That's lovely!

I'd love to explore those areas. Just like how I love exploring and running around in tall grass fields, corn fields and wheat fields.

Vasili Borodin: I think I would like to see Montana!

Damn that's a BEAUTIFUL vista, Dutch!
Nice photo too.

This place is a great sight to see! It looks natural also.

So, why so they call it Montana?

The name Montana comes from the Spanish word montaña, which in turn comes from the Latin word montanea, meaning "mountain", or more broadly, "mountainous country". Montaña del Norte was the name given by early Spanish explorers to the entire mountainous region of the west. The name Montana was added to a bill by the United States House Committee on Territories (chaired at the time by James Ashley of Ohio) for the territory that would become Idaho Territory. The name was changed by representatives Henry Wilson (Massachusetts) and Benjamin F. Harding (Oregon), who complained Montana had "no meaning". When Ashley presented a bill to establish a temporary government in 1864 for a new territory to be carved out of Idaho, he again chose Montana Territory. This time, Rep. Samuel Cox, also of Ohio, objected to the name. Cox complained the name was a misnomer given most of the territory was not mountainous and a Native American name would be more appropriate than a Spanish one. Other names such as Shoshone were suggested, but the Committee on Territories decided they could name it whatever they wanted, so the original name of Montana was adopted

Montana is the fourth-largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the third-least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller mountain ranges are found throughout the state. In all, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.

Thank you, I actually do have access to Wikipedia and Google, the cut-and-pasta was unnecessary. The comment was made in jest. I'll let you look up the definition of that word on your own.

just posting for those who have no clue
tis all good.

Nice. Best way to socialize is to not be around society.

Especially the cities. :)

Now that's some real beautiful scenery right there.

Wow!