Week in Pictures August 9 - 15
A Huckleberry Brownie Parfait gets a last bit of topping on Friday at Just Deserts in Kalispell. The parfait, made with dark chocolate and light chocolate brownies, Oreo cookie crumbs, hot fudge, chocolate mouse, huckleberry mouse, whipping cream and huckleberries, is one of the deserts Joyce Dye entered in the Huckleberry Days Bake-Off Contest. The parfaits took third in this year's bake-off.
Lilly Diegel, 15, of Kalispell shrieks as she gets a blast of water from Andora Tutvedt, 17, of Kalispell, not shown, as they was wash their horses on Friday at the Flathead County Fairgrounds. In the background is Lilly's sister Eliza Diegel, 14.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) speaks to a crowd of about 50 people while a line forms to engage the Congressman. The audience offered a wide array of questions and comments, ranging from the state of the economy to health care on Friday at Glacier Discovery Square in Columbia Falls.
Glacier High School Football Coach Grady Bennett, left, takes a closer look at the new 20 gallon pressurized water tank donated by Greg Harris, right, of Grizzly Security Armored Express on Friday morning.
Taylor Zachary of the Kalispell Fire Department removes the caution tape which surrounded the parking lot of the Earl Bennett Building on Friday morning.
A tourist snaps a photograph of a mountain goat crossing over the trail to Hidden Lake near Logan Pass in Glacier National Park on Wednesday.
Kalispell residents Ed Wettach (left) and Jen Johnson pose at the Montana Straight Blast Gym with the Ringside World Championship belts they won in Kansas City, Mo., in early Aug.
Between Big Bend and Logan Pass on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Anderson Masonry employee Mike Bercier chisels stone into shape while co-worker Mike McNally reaches for measuring tape Wednesday morning. Federal stimulus money — $27.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — has helped construction and improvements to continue on the road this summer. The section of road is slated for completion by fall 2011.
Buck tries to climb out of the water on the shoulders of Troy Fraley, 15, at Foy’s Lake Tuesday.
A flock of mallards makes it safely across U.S. 2 just south of Columbia Falls last Tuesday afternoon.
Jim Mohn plays the lead role in the group’s first production in addition to being president of the board for the Stumptown Players.
Paige Lowen grimaces while family and friends bury her in the hot sand at Whitefish City Beach.
The Stumptown Players’ inaugural show is “Sylvia,” a comedy by A.R. Gurney about a man, his wife, and Sylvia, a canine newcomer to the family. Alicia Blake, left, plays Sylvia, with Michele Keener playing Kate and Jim Mohn as her husband, Greg.
A young grizzly bear walks along the rocky surface below the West Side Tunnel in Glacier National Park on Tuesday.
David Mayhew of Atascadero, CA speeds along the track during the NASCAR Rumble in the Rockies K&N Pro Series West Bonus Challenge 150 Saturday evening at Montana Raceway Park.
Indian Springs Ranch Golf Club shop manager Brian Berg looks out onto the par 3 sixth hole before teeing off on June 24. Indian Springs is in its first full summer of operation and offers 18 holes of links style golf in Eureka.
Justine Winter and her defense attorney David Stufft listen to testimony at a preliminary hearing June 29. Winter will be tried as an adult on two counts of deliberate homicide for the traffic deaths of Erin Thompson and Caden Odell in March 2009.
Tim Murry talks with his son, T.J. Murry, before putting up panels inside a new building that will house Western States Insurance Agency in the Village Plaza Business Park.
