El Western's "Tippet"

© 2014 Ken W. Hall    "Tippet"

Spring weather is unpredictable here in the Madison Valley.  Temperatures range from the 20s to high 60's, sunshine to cloudy, calm to windy.  

As nature wakes from her long winter's nap those of us who live here year round are busy preparing for the return or our summer residents and tourists.  

Recently Ken taught a photography class at the El Western here in Ennis, Montana.  This is Ken's description of the above photo.

"Here is an image from the last day of the workshop I taught at the El Western. This is "Tippet" the resident caretaker of the stream. The lawn was covered with limbs that she removes from the creek and deposits on the lawn. This behavior goes on constantly throughout the season. Seems she has given herself the job of Stream Maintenance Supervisor. Just in the hour we were by the stream shooting she must have brought twenty large branches and small limbs out of the creek."

                                                                                          -Ken W. Hall

FUNNY STORY (side note: a tippet is the smallest part of the leader on a fly rod. The fly is tied onto the tippet.)