Out Our Way: The stormcloud in the sunshine

Psalm 97

Out our way, we sometimes refer to the vast prairies as "Big Sky" or "The Big Open." I recall some national radio personality once ridiculed Montana for those terms. "They have the same sky as everyone else." Then he came for a visit. Sometime later he published his script for all the states whose nicknames he had mocked. His reference to Montana had been left out.

It is "Big Sky" and "The Big Open" out our way. I love Glacier and Yellowstone, have been many times on the Flathead, and they are spectacular. But nothing says Montana to me like riding over the Tiger Ridge area of the Bea...