Ranch dog, Montana

Kit, a herd dog at Flying Diamond Ranch in Montana's Paradise Valley. After a long day working with Gelbvieh cattle on the summer grazing grounds, Kit is resting in the shade beneath her owner's truck. When not herding cows, Kit likes chewing burrs out of her fur, and terrorizing gophers.

I've been traveling through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and inside Yellowstone National Park, working on a PBS NewsHour story with the program's science correspondent Miles O'Brien and producer Jenny Marder. The resulting story airs later this month.

Technical notes: iPhone snapshot, Hipstamatic, Buckhurst H1 "lens" + Ina's 1969 "film."

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Montana morning

Good morning from a sustainable cattle ranch in Montana's Centennial Valley. Here is a snapshot I just took on my phone of one of the residents. I am here with PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien, and PBS NewsHour producer Jenny Marder. We're working on a story for the program.

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Montana Couple builds “Hobbit House”

by Mark R - on August 18th, 2011

If there is an award for biggest fan of Lord of the Rings, I believe that husband and wife Steve and Christine Michaels would take the prize.

The couple have built a house in the hills of Montana that would fit in to the Shire. I would imagine that if you entered in the address for Bilbo Baggins on Google Maps for Middle Earth, you would be led here.

Granted, it does not have the circular door that J.R.R. Tolkien emphasized in both The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it is designed for the world of the “big folk”.

You can see a series of photos from my Source that reveal that the house is bigger than it looks. There is no way that Gandalf will be hitting his head on the crossbeams here. There is one door that is so small that it is downright impractical.

Still, this entire place looks very cozy, even though the dwellers have to mow the roof every once in while. Perhaps Peter Jackson should have filmed The Hobbit movie here, assuming that hasn’t already. The whole house cost a price of $410,000, which I’m sure would have been a fraction of a Middle Earth movie budget.

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