After we checked out Nevada City and Virginia City, Mikel and I decided to take a different route home. The road went past Ruby Reservoir and on dirt roads back to Dillon.
On our drive we past this beautiful cabin that's for sale and, as we drove by, I saw some big animal things in the front yard. I'm a pretty good eye-spy to see the animals but actually knowing what they are in not my specialty (yet). Mikel turned around so we could check it out.
It turned out to be seven big horn sheep! So cool!
If I was quicker on the trigger I would have got this one hopping the fence. Instead he was on his way down which was still pretty cool!
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| just jumped the fence |
Mikel and I sat and watched the big horn sheep for awhile and they were so cool!
Right after the cool cabin and wildlife viewing, we came up on Ruby Reservoir. It was all frozen over and there were tons of people out ice fishing!
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| ice houses on the reservoir |
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| the view on the ride home. beautiful Montana |
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| a ranch property along the way |
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| antelope off the side of the road |
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| a wolf track along the drive, right outside of Dillon |
Right before we got to town we saw these big chunks of ice on the fence and realized something was leaking. It's a sad day for someone but it made for a cool picture...
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| the water shot right down the middle of the crevice |
If there was actually substantial snow on the ground like there usually is in February, this wouldn't have looked so out of place but it jumped right out with the brown grass and warm weather!
