Rattlesnake Wilderness, Missoula Montana

what is nearby
is far away
unless you go there
are there

#aRealPlace #Missoula #RattlesnakeWilderness

a bulletin board in the alleyway in Missoula MT a real place

YUP ... the bulletin board

again
in the alleyway

everything in a dancing

a morning piece at toMake in Missoula Montana

a morning(s) piece

made & re-made mornings 12:April-18:April
#toMake #drawing #MixedMedia #Missoula #aRealPlace #practice #BlueSkyArt

yes ... &&& but but but a killer at work

mixed media drawing, painting, work on paper

a morning(s) piece

reworked daily 29:March-4:April
#toMake #drawing #MixedMedia #Missoula #aRealPlace #practice #BlueSkyArt

WOW

Mixed media on board. Map of Milk & Porcupine rivers in Montana.

"Untitled; Where Two Rivers"

Mixed media map on board.
The Milk & Porcupine downstream from Cree Crossing
& near their confluence with the Missouri.

#aRealPlace #toMake #mapping #Montana #blueskyart

14 line wood type "NO KINGS"

YA) ........ #NoKings
#aRealPlace #Missoula #printmaking

I can 'read' this
wood type on a pressroom table
& it's over a century old
& it's been well used
& saying again

&&&
you can read this as well
I know

YA) we know

stunningly beautiful &&&&&&&

Sunrise on the Montana eastern front

Sunrise on the Montana eastern front
Slingshot Mtn :: Two Dog Flats
Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park
East side cam view: 27:March 7:36 AM 2026
View looking west into the park & Lake St.Mary

#Glacier-Waterton #MT #aRealPlace #RockyMountainFront #GNP #sunrise

14 line wood type layout "PUT EARTH FIRST"

14 line wood type
PUT EARTH FIRST

#letterpress #design #tomake #printmaking

From Apgar Mtn L.O. in Glacier N.P. views to the east of Lake McDonald & the continental divide on 26:March 2026.

From Apgar Mtn L.O. webcam in #Glacier-Waterton NP. . . views of Lake McDonald, Stanton, Vaught, Cannon, Brown & Edwards Mtns, the #GardenWall & #ContinentalDivide.

11:25 AM 26:March 2026 elev. 5157'

#aRealPlace

. . .

the bulletin board in the alleyway at toMake in Missoula Mont.

YUP ... the bulletin board

again
in the alleyway

everything in a dancing

toMake Press & Editions Bearing Witness :: the World Beautiful

toMake Press & Editions
Bearing Witness :: the World Beautiful

#toMake #Missoula #aRealPlace #printmaking #PinholePhotography #Film #Lithography #ReliefPrints #Letterpress #Luddite #BlueSKyArt #LimitedEditions #MonoPrints #Making #ByHand . . . www.tomake.com

both ... your mind/heart decides which

GENEROSITY
Right MAP Making . . . the second precept; generosity.
www.tomake.com/manifesto.html

#toMake #generosity #RightMAPMaking #mapmaking

GENEROSITY, a wood relief print on Kozo

GENEROSITY
A hand-carved wood block print on Kozo. Part of a print/edition that addresses Right MAP Making's second precept; generosity.
www.tomake.com/manifesto.html

#toMake #printmaking #relief #woodblock #generosity #RightMAPMaking

Highline trail continental divide in the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park backcountry.

Along the highline trail in the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park backcountry.

#aRealPlace #Glacier-Waterton #ContinentalDivide #HighlineTrail

and still . . . &&& quiet

pinhole images
bsky.app/profile/toma...

A dragonfly on a hand beside the Ne-hoi-al-pit-kwu // Kettle River tributary of the Columbia

Ne-hoi-al-pit-kwu [Kettle] River
∙ BC-WA-BC-WA into the Columbia
∙ just below the Pend d'Oreille
∙ & just above that stink, a.k.a. Roosevelt Reservoir
∙ & just above the once great Kettle Falls

YA) once
salmon in this water
swimming upstream &&& down

#aRealPlace #salmon #dragonfly

and the Klepper (a K2 ?) on the shore ready for a paddle

a bulletin board in an alleyway in Missoula Montana

The bulletin board,
in the alleyway

at toMake Press
in Missoula

YA) You Are Here

#toMake #Missoula #aRealPlace #alleyway

wonderfully delightful

Spring garlic emerging in the garden raised beds

&&& just like that
spring garlic emerging
in the garden raised beds
the equinox
breathing in
breathing out

#equinox #aRealEvent #aRealPlace #Missoula #spring

Stone lithograph on a press bed

MD12 on the press.
#StoneLithography #printmaking #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula

Lithograph map/print of T&R; Milk River Montana

'Milk River T&R'
Edition of 15 E.V. Two colour lithograph on Sakamoto.

#toMake #aRealPlace #MilkRiver #Montana #printmaking #T&RM #mapping #map

old K&E 1945 slide rule

my father's
rule
lingering on

not around here ... and this room is very much a part of the world