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inter gets a bad rap; but can any weather be
more uninteresting than, say, San Diego?
In Montana we hold fast to the change of seasons and
the shift of our attitudes and perspective.
In winter Montana pushes back. Our population sinks to near-
norm after the summer and fall crowding; and we welcome the
emptiness, even the gray-and-white bleakness of the mountains
and plains. Shelter and home take on new meaning
in the cold and dark. Friends and family regroup,
sharing fireside respite, while conversation seems
more earnest and meaningful. Comfy inside, the
warm winter sun soon brings joy to the heart and
breaks one's cabin fever with bouts of blue sky
living — hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, and the like.
We appreciate our breath more now that we can see it.
Winter is "distinctly" Montana. It is probably the key reason why
our state is third from the bottom in population density, just seven
people to the square mile, far less than our cattle count. Winter
makes Montana a secret — special, spacious, and secure.
We hear San Diego is quite nice, but we'll keep our winters.
A NOTE FROM THE
PUBLISHERS
BILL MUHLENFELD, PUBLISHER
bill@distinctlymontana.com
ANTHEA GEORGE, PUBLISHER
anthea@distinctlymontana.com
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If you will stay here awhile I will promise you strange sights. You shall walk on water; all these
brooks and rivers and ponds shall be your highway. You shall see the whole earth covered a foot or more deep with
purest white crystals . . . and all the trees and stubble glittering in icy armor.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1859
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