Senator Dan Salomon, a Montana legislator from Ronan, “has never, been so mad”. I read Sen. Salomon’s quote in an article about a bill proposed in the 2023 Montana Legislature that would ...
https://www.eastofbillings.com/montana-republican-legislators-christopher-columbus/
Greetings friends! After taking a couple years off, I’m happy to announce that I have a 2023 EOB calendar available. The calendar is 8.5 x 11 in full-color with fifteen photographs of eastern M...
https://www.eastofbillings.com/2023-east-of-billings-calendar-available-to-order/
There is a thing that happens when you are a writer and something really bad is happening (like, for instance, a global pandemic). People ask you if you’ve been writing. The answer is no. I hav...
https://www.eastofbillings.com/planting-potatoes-in-a-pandemic/
There are many spots on the floor in my kitchen where the linoleum is worn through and I can see the wood underneath it and I’m sure when people see it all they see is old, stained linoleum tha...
A couple of months ago, I was driving back from a hunting trip in southeast Montana and a billboard in Lockwood caught my eye. The text reads: Onward Pioneers. The photo is of a man wearing a bac...
The calendar is 8.5 x 11 in full-color with fifteen of my favorite photographs of eastern Montana. $10.00/calendar + $7.35 USPS priority flat rate shipping. Shipping will begin immediately after ...
Do you hear the wind moving through the cottonwood leaves and the red winged blackbirds singing to each other? It’s hard because the ground is now covered with snow and the blackbirds have left...
The calendar is 8.5 x 11 in full-color with thirteen of my favorite photographs of eastern Montana. $10.00/calendar + $6.70 USPS Priority Shipping. Shipping will begin December 17. If you need fa...
https://www.eastofbillings.com/2019-east-of-billings-calendar-available-to-order/
There is (well I guess now I need to say was) an open field near my farm. Since I was a kid it has looked the same – a ten-acre grass field below an older housing development. I liked it. It wa...
https://www.eastofbillings.com/elegy-for-an-unremarkable-field/
Matt Rosendale says he is a rancher. He also says he is a straight shooter. I think, however, he might be a little confused as to what a rancher is and also the definition of a straight shooter. ...