The open natural road-side artwork of the American West.

This is Deb and Di's verison of Thelma and Louise.

How can you pass up a 3,000 mile road trip with a good friend to visit her 93 year old father? Especially when she thinks this may be her last visit.

And we have been on this gallery crawl before. Starting in Nevada where the landscape hasn't changed much since the Pony Express rode through.

As night was falling we hit Elko and decided to call it a night. Had dinner at the Stray Dog Pub, which used to be a funeral parlor. We gave it 4 stars on Yelp.

The Nevada sky looked pretty darn big to Di and I. But when we got into the heart of Montana we were reminded of what Big Sky really was.

Just nothing quite like the Montana Sky.

After a nice visit with Di's parents we headed south to Lolo, outside of Missoula to Di's cousin's ranch— Dunrovin Ranch on the Bitterroot River.

I was lucky enough to cross that river...

on a Tennessee Walking horse...

And this was on the other side.

Too little time and like the geese we had to head south...

to Seattle where my friend Peg and I took a long walk through the arboretum.

And our last stop, Ashland, where we strolled through Lithia Park.

We arrived home and summer had turned the corner to fall.