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Brent Scott
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HS English teacher, married, girl dad, union man, Montanan

Interests: gardening, nature, art, watercolor, poetry, books, crosswords, democracy, Dylan

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🌱some fall pics from this last week and today
Sunlight illuminates some tall grass heads against the dark pool of the irrigation ditch, no longer flowing, near my house. Leafless trees and osiers line the far bank. A few coneflowers still blooming in the yard. Dark red centers surrounded by yellow slender petals. A pond dotted by brown bunches of reeds. Trees stand bare in the distance. Clouds fill the blue sky. The strawberry plants, with their triplets of fringed leaves, display fall colors—some still dark green, some lighter green, some yellow, some coral orange.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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#watercolor sketch of a fall scene of the irrigation ditch that runs by my house
An irrigation ditch reflects gray skies, running from center to the distant right. A couple of tall trees in the near distance shed yellow leaves. A few bare trees in the background. A shrub still holds its green leaves, and the grasses too are still green.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Aurora seen tonight from my back porch, edge of town in Montana. Growing up here, such things were never witnessed. What is different these days to make it so visible so far south?
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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🌱some fall color and vibes around the yard today
A Martha Washington geranium is turning several fall colors - greens, reds, and browns. The pointed leaves make for interesting interplay. Some yellow leaves from a shrub serve as backdrop to blackened seed clusters that developed from the white flowers of summer. Pink gaura blossoms have endured nearly to November. Red stalks give way to delicate pink flowers. Green grass littered with leaves are the backdrop. From the back yard, the Beartooth mountains are visible under gray overcast. Red leaves from vines, yellow and green osiers and small trees color the foreground.
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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#watercolor sketch from a photo of Glacier Park
Tall snow-capped mountains in distance. Lake waters to right. Green tree covered hills leading down to waters edge. Foreground has a tall dead evergreen to right and two pines to right. Yellow leaves on bushes.
October 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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🌱Found some fall color today.
A late-blooming peach rose is open wide. Next to its deep green leaves, a dark coral bud preps for a last hurrah to the season. A closeup of the rosebud in blushing peach. A few bright red and yellow maples line up behind the old train depot. A fancy old-time light post stands in between the trees. In the background, some train cars and the Phillips 66 refinery.
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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#watercolor sketch
A river sparkles in the light as it rounds a corner rimmed on one side by tall canyon walls. Rolling hills in the distance seem to spill down into the river. In the river valley, autumn colors surround a few stands of evergreen and shrub. From a picture taken this weekend at the Teton River in Northern Montana.
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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#watercolor sketch of the high school where I teach, near my classroom
Watercolor painting of a side of a 1 story brick school with a row of square windows. The foreground is green grass. The view is framed by two large trees, maybe maples or elms, just beginning to show some autumn color. A bright blue sky with a single large puffy cloud overhangs the scene.
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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#watercolor of the gates of the Big Bench Irrigation Ditch near my house.
Watercolor of a ditch divided into three channels by a cement gate with a rusty iron rail and bridge. The water falls through the gates. A grassy slope in the foreground and trees in the distance. Blue skies and clouds in the upper third partly obscured by the distant trees.
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Went for a walk with my friend Barry at Sundance today. Came home inspired to #watercolor
#Montana
September 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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#watercolor sketch of a late summer path through #Glacier Park,
#Montana
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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🍄‍🟫🌱 #bloomscrolling
Feeling like fall is just a few days away now.
A mushroom, looking like a little egg, balances on a stem just above the green grass. I actually mowed around the beauty. A red mini rose faces the sun surrounded by 2 red buds ready to open. Large dark green Ancho chilies hang from sturdy stems. These will be ready to make into rellenos in a few days. A bright wild sunflower shines like the sun, and several other volunteer sunflowers bloom in the background. I always get numerous volunteers.
September 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Some visitors to the garden.
A T Rex prowls around the ferns. A fall field cricket in the rocks, fleeing my watering hose. Buddha sits quietly beneath the tree, in the cool fronds of the hosta. A praying mantis on the wall trim. His antennae and keen eyes look around for a snack. Long slender limbs bend unexpectedly.
August 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#bloomscrolling
A few pix from this morning’s garden stroll.
A few pinkish asters are now in bloom. Light green leaves in a small mound topped with a multi-petalled flower cluster. A mini red rose blossom prepares to unfurl. Spiky sepals surround the bloom pointing in four directions. Small round buds wrapped in light green leaves gather at the foot of the rose, ripening. A few sedum flowers of tiny pink clusters with broad waxy leaves of a succulent below. A picture of the deck flowers on a bench. Red begonias, yellow bells, purple petunias. Basil gone wild, green and purple sage. A cherry tomato.
August 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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🌱#bloomscrolling
Late in the season here in MT but still much to marvel at.
The ditch that runs adjacent to my edge of town lot in SW Montana. Tall grasses gone to seed along the right bank of a small ditch. Willows, a small cottonwood, and Russian olive along the far bank. A small reddish sedum with pink blossoms against a backdrop of light green sedum. A few violets bloom with purple hats over sunny yellow faces. An aster stands on a spike preparing to bloom. These were self seeding from a plant I tried last year.
August 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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New #watercolor sketch of Old Faithful. Took the family last Saturday. Only 5 hrs away and we don’t go as often as we might.
Watercolor of Old Faithful geyser erupting under a sunny but cloud-filled day. Forested hills in the background. Two white grassless mounds, the left one shooting a gray spray of hot water and gas up into the air.
August 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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🌱Today’s garden walk.
#bloomscrolling
A bright red mini rose in full bloom. Layers of lush petals piled up decadently. A pair of pretty pink cone flowers in their spiky glory. A Hunt’s bumblebee sniffs around a purple Veronica flower. His orange stripe, like a skirt across his thorax, stylishly contrasts with the hairy yellow and black sweater he wears to dinner. Sharp guest.
August 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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🌱🕷️ An Argiope spider has taken up residence in the garden beneath my deck.
A closeup of a large black and yellow garden spider. Her torso is black in the center and yellow around the ovate edge. She has 2 long legs with white bands; the others are black. The size of the spider relative to some leaves and the 4x4 post of my deck. Her zipped together web is clearly seen, a hallmark of the Argiope species.
August 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Another Glacier Park #watercolor sketch. This one from a nighttime photo of the cabin we stayed in.
A night scene of a cabin by Lake McDonald in Glacier Park’s Apgar Village. The dark outline of the cabin aglow with light is seen from the shore of McDonald Creek. Two dark trees lean over the rocky shore toward the calm lake. The peaks of GP are seen in outline under cloudy night skies.
August 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🦉I need some birder help please!

I surprised this bird (and he me) this afternoon. He was sipping from the birdbath. My Merlin app did not have a guess. Any guesses? I think it might be a juvenile Cooper’s hawk but IDK.
August 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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🌱🌲🌿 Took a nice dsy trip with the family through #Yellowstone today. Amazing scenery.
Stream rises above a light blue hot spring. In the foreground, an orange and black bacterial mat runs away from the spring. In the background, dark blue clouds loom over dark green mountains. The Old Faithful geyser spouts hot water and steamy spray into a sky of white clouds. The tawny sweets grasses of the basin foreground the dark trees of the mountains behind them. Bands of color: blue skies filled with irregular gray and white clouds, seemingly moving right; a triangular wedge of dark green mountains; below that, a band of orange cream and marshmallow where geysers empty into the river lazily flowing; a small geyser filled with churning white and blue waters. A lone bison heads right across the Lamar Valley. Sage brush and yellowed sweet grasses fill the frame and the air with scent. A stand of tall leafy trees grow beside the waters of the river. Evergreen mountains and cloudy skies top the scene.
August 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Tried another #watercolor of my recent stay in Glacier Park. I’m discovering the joy of revisiting a place in paint.
A watercolor sketch of a few tall evergreens along a dark creek. The shadows of trees along the far bank are visible in the water. Rocky banks line the foreground to the left.
August 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🌱 #bloomscrolling
A few later summer blossoms keep the garden colorful.
A pair of curly orange day lilies tower above an array of black-eyed susans. A few cone flowers with striated pink petals radiating out from spiny orange centers. A scarlet cone flower with a ruffled center fronts a few gaillardia blooms in sunset colors of red, orange, and yellow.
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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🌿🌳🌱Some natural beauty and #wildflowers from my stay in #GlacierPark last week.
The gnarled and exposed roots of a cedar or hemlock tree. Little blue forget-me-nots grow wild near McDonald Creek in West Glacier. Some blooms of wild hemlock water parsnips look like white fireworks blasts, clusters of clusters of tiny ivory dots. A patch of common cord moss in sap green grows on a trail next to McDonald Creek near the bridge by Apgar Village.
August 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Thanks. This was my reference photo.

Also, glad to see you finally figuring out Bluesky.
August 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM