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Bruce Keller and Christene "Cookie" Meyers are hunkered down, taking small domestic trips,  keeping their passports at the ready as hope...

I've rescued hummingbirds from cats' paws and   Yorkies' jaws. I gently directed one from the rear of the garage when he flew in then couldn't find his way out. (I used a large red silk scarf to guide him.) This week, we helped a hummer recover from a fall on our patio

Butte, Montana, native Evel Knievel tried a jump in this spectacular canyon in Twin Falls, Idaho. Jumpers enjoy a tamer form of...

Road trip wonders -- stopping to 'smell the roses' from Montana to California. We relish stopping to admire the landscape, perhaps exploring a bluff or bridge we haven't noticed before. We smell the roses, as Keller says, "as we stroll through the garden of life." Often we pull over to give ourselves and the dog a break. This leads to taking a few photos, studying a roadside plaque or grabbing a milkshake at a newly discovered diner. 

Cookie shops for produce on an annual autumn road trip, here at a stand in the San Juaquin Valley.   THANKS TO FARMERS, WORKERS, FINE...

Autumn colors make a beautiful photo: chokecherries, wild rose, ornamental willow, aspen. POETS PAY HOMAGE TO COLORFUL FALL IN FULL GLORY NOW IN MONTANA Bruce Keller and Christene "Cookie" Meyers on a walk near their Stillwater home. "Life starts all over again,  when it gets crisp in the fall..." --F. Scott Fitzgerald STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER NOWHERE  in all my global jaunts have I seen autumns as lovely as Montana's. Sure, the Swiss Alps beg "stay a

"Big Mike" greets visitors to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, reopened since June. BOZEMAN's BOOMING: MONTANA'S FASTEST GROWING...

Whether you're headed east of west, it's freeing to be off and driving on a road trip, Tips and recommendations included below While our American goldfinches have fled Montana, we found this one in a rest stop farther south in Nevada.

The Buffalo Bill Dam and Visitor Center offers a sweeping view of the reservoir. Writer-photographer Rick Cosgriffe takes his camera for...

Cody's Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a world class complex of interesting and varied museums.   STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By...

Spectacular views await at every turn on a trek through Yellowstone and Teton this week. DAZZLING WATERS, BLUE SKIES, HALLMARK CLOUDS,...

A mother whale and her calf in flowers draw the eye to Victoria's famous Hotel Fairmont Empress. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By...

If you enter Oslo by boat, you will transit Akershus Harbor and its Renaissance Fortress. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE...

Skagen's distinctive yellow houses always sport orange tiled roofs, an artistic tradition. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE...