Photo Essay: Missoula on My Mind

Missoula hums with energy along its river-front. Copyright Cynthia Swidler 2012.

Chasing away the middle school blues and gray days, this seventh grade student enjoys the outdoors by swinging above the mountains to the sky.

The Bohemian Waxwings flock and feed on Mountain Ash berries, becoming crazily intoxicated and bringing a great spot of color on an otherwise gray, late winter day.

A brief and glorious moment of sun thawed the morning's snow from my car's sun-roof.

A brief and glorious moment of sun thawed the morning's snow from my car's sun-roof.