Fall in Montana is amazing. A wild ride, yes, but truly amazing. We have new neighbors who moved in across the street about 3 months ago. They asked what Fall was like here and we replied it’s “variable”. This year, October was a little harsh, but November is shaping up to be quite nice.
As I have mentioned many times before- I get out several times every day regardless of the “niceness” of the weather. To be able to make this work and to maintain a full-time job, I have to start early and end late. We are usually out the door for the first walk of the day at 5:15 to 5:30am. The last outing can be as “late” as 7pm in the winter, or 9pm in the summer. Obsidian Black Dog tends to put himself to bed about 7:30pm year round.
The beauty of this sort of schedule is that I get to see nature in all its glory in a nice variety of places. We choose where to go based on the conditions. If we get 20 inches of snow, I tend to walk the neighborhood. A few inches, and I tend to hit a nice park about two miles away that has a mile long loop that is paved. Otherwise, it’s the local mountain paths, prairie trails around the valley, etc.
I was walking along a nice open path a few days ago and an old Colin Hay song popped up in my mind – “I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets, Yeah this is as good as it gets” – and I thought to myself, he’s right- “My, my, my it’s a beautiful world”.
We can sit inside, or we can get outside and enjoy the world as it is.
I choose to get outside.
Nature, every day. 
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