Sunday morning, Melinda and I got up early and hit the road. She was working on a presentation about her home town for one of her classes. Menan is a very small town and we lived she did most of her growing up there. I’m hoping I will be able to add some of the stories and pictures she collected about Menan to my scrapbook. If I’m really lucky I’ll be able to post some of them here. In any case, we hit the road to go to Menan and take some pictures.
We still have relatives in Menan whom we love very much. However, this was a quick hide and seek mission. Hide from the obligations and seek good pictures. Between us we got quite a few. We photographed, the churches, rock houses, main street (site of The Parade), the park (site of The Fireworks), the town hall, the buttes, the Snake River and of course the bank. We even went over to Anis and photographed the church and cemetery there. Menan is 1.5 hours north of my house. We were able to get there by 9:15 a.m. and be back here in time for a nap around 12:30.
Of course we saw a lot of birds too. The red-winged blackbirds were out in full force showing off their bands of red, trying to lure the females. There were also dozens of mourning doves, magpies, kestrels, brewer’s blackbirds, goldfinches, and even a quail. Later we ate lasagne, watched episodes of Remington Steele and talked about life on the Butte.
The scariest part of the adventure was the taking of pictures of the neonazi guy’s house. We only took a few pictures then turned around taking a couple more and were about to drive off when I saw him watching us, hidden by trees. EEEEEEEEEeeeee…. We drove away then. He’ll definitely bring a little local color to her report.
Fun weekend all in all.
Jenny
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Ahhhhh, the fourth ward.
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