Distinctly Montana Magazine

D I S T I N C T LY M O N TA N A • W I N T E R 2 0 1 9 36 www.flybillings.com W HE THER TR AV ELING FOR BUSINES S OR PLE A SURE , W ITH E XCEP TION A L A IR SERV ICE A ND AC CES SIBILIT Y, G E T Y O U H E R E . Seattle Portland Salt Lake City Los Angeles Las Vegas Phoenix Denver Chicago Minneapolis Havre Glendive Sidney Wolf Point Glasgow BIL Dallas Daily Direct Flights Weekly Direct Flights Seasonal Direct Flights Daily Flights in Montana B I L L I N G S L O G A N I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T BIL www.flybillings.com W HE THER TR AV ELING FOR BUSINES S OR PLE A SURE , W ITH E XCEP TION A L A IR SERV ICE A ND AC CES SIBILIT Y, G E T Y O U H E R E . Seattle Portland Salt Lake City Los Angeles Las Vegas Phoenix Denver Chicago Minneapolis Havre Glendive Sidney Wolf Point Glasgow BIL Dallas Daily Direct Flights Weekly Direct Flights Seasonal Direct Flights Daily Flights in Montana B I L L I N G S L O G A N I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T BIL "Well," he said slowly, "it's spotty. ere's places where it winter-killed, but some of those spots were just wind-blown. It came through better than I thought it could. ere's enough good wheat for you to ride to school next fall on a first-class ticket, girl! All that through there has been slowed down a little because of the rain and cold these last weeks, but it's blaze now. Anna!" he shouted. "Ben!" Mom's voice across the strip had a warm excited sound to it. "Look over here! It's good here. She done better than she look last week!" Mom came back to stand by Dad. "I thought you said I'd lose the combine!" Dad had a laugh in his voice. "Well, you might yet with hare or grasshop- pers. Watch out!" Mom looked up at him with her eyes sparkling the way they did over a joke. I went back over to the truck. is afternoon I would bring Leslie down here to see the wheat that didn't winter-kill. "See," I would say, "it didn't die out. Oh, in a few places, but look here—try to pull it up. See how strong and green it is?" Leslie would know what I meant. His eyes would shine. I slid in on the seat of the truck to wait for Mom and Dad. ey had walked a little away along the strip. Now they were standing together. e looked smaller under the too-wide sky, Mom so thick and peasant-looking with her bandanna tied around her head, Dad spare and angular and a little round-shouldered. Why had I worried about them? I had been as blind in the world as Mom had said. ey had love that was deep-rooted and stronger than love that grows easily. It gave me faith for my own life. "You can't pick up faith at the cut-rate drugstore," Warren had said. I must tell him sometime that faith had to grow like wheat, winter wheat. Love was like that, too…. Now I wanted to live my life with the strength of winter wheat, through drought, and rain and snow. I honked the horn. It grated noisily on the bring spring day. "Come on!" I yelled. It won't grow while you watch it!" Mom waved. "Hold your horses!" Dad yelled back. ey came up the field together. I had not always been glad that I was their child, but today I had a kind of pride in being born to them. i wanted to live my life with the strength of winter wheat, through drought, and rain and snow. www.flybillings .com B I L L I N G S L O G A N I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T BIL W HE THER TR AV ELING FOR BUSINES S OR PLE A SURE , W ITH E XCEP TION A L A IR SERV ICE A ND AC CES SIBILIT Y, W E G E T Y O U H E R E . Our convenient flight options now include daily ser vice to Dallas. 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