regular helena satur-day-o

after a pretty exhausting night partying down in east helena (when the rodeo comes to town, the street party follows), we decided to stick around regular helena for most of the day. hit the farmer's market in the morning to sample some local wares and such.

i'm almost positive "i don't need a bag" was what came out of my mouth. thought pretty hard for a while to make sure i hadn't inadvertently said it in japanese. maybe dude didn't notice the thing on my back. either way, i cleaned up in the baked goods section.

to my dismay, no adults allowed.

wedding prep continued for most of the day, mostly including weeding and radiator fin straightening. afterward, we briefly shopped it up at this sweet little hand-made goods store in "reeder's alley". it's sort of a preserved old town, complete with one-room flats originally used to house miners.

shady back alley

after the day's hard work, it was about damn time to fish it up. hooked into one small walleye, solidified the skin tone, and stabbed big sis with a fishing hook. altogether a pretty nice day in the 'tanner.

the marina. there is a hell of a lot more going on around this place these days than in january.

sporting the sweet new hat

roughly the location of the ice fishing extravaganza (ch-ch-check it)

sun down across the helena valley

ecolinkers:

http://www.hautetrash.org/

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/08/plastic_bag_crafts.html