Idaho/Montana/Wyoming

I mentioned how I can see Idaho/Wyoming/Montana from the top of the hill near me. I still think this is cool, so I drove up and took a few pictures this morning. The mountains are a couple hours' drive off, so they really are far, but since they stick up, they're visible from here. They're easier to see with snow on them, which we now have, so here you go. Mount Moran (named for the landscape painter Thomas Moran, in case you're wondering):



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So, those of you sweltering in 70-degree New York weather, I hope you enjoyed your frosty tristate view of the intermountain west today. :)

Swiping books

I love it--my least-enthusiastic reader has STOLEN the first Percy Jackson book from me and is reading it on the sly, sneaking ahead of where I'm reading to her and her sister. Thanks to some language confusion right at school-entry age, she's lagged behind the other kids a bit, but I think this just might do the job and hook her into reading. Thank you, Rick Riordan!

I'd better be thinking of other books to strategically leave lying around, just to see what happens...