Top photo was taken during our warm week of mid 70 temps. I drove out to the Kootenai Wildlife Refuge and took this and some other photos.From this angle you're looking West-North West and out over the now pretty dry wetlands of the refuge. The entire park is very large and is all you can see in the view (except the car, I'm sure somebody would have said something about that!) and more!
Most of the flocks of geese have already headed South and the ones left have hopefully donned their flak vests since its not too much longer for hunting season.
And actually to help prevent illegal hunting at the refuge it's illegal to stop and be out in the park during that time of hunting season. So no photos then.
The rest of the year there are many walking, hiking and even a driving path in the refuge.
The bottom photo is the day it opened of the "new" "Akin's Harvest Foods" that was till the last day of July, the old Safeway in town. It had only opened about an hour earlier and they still were getting the store finished. It has done pretty well, with often a full parking lot, since it opened because many locals aren't happy with the overall prices of the 'new' Safeway at what was the Boundary Trading Store.
The story going around is that the Safeway chain feels our area to be a 'satellite' area so the higher costs of delivering goods is more passed on to the buyers compared to a urban supermarket.
Reasonable to me since in our visit to Boise last month prices for what few things we bought while there were substantially less expensive that comparable items here, just don't want to live in the big city anymore! Been there, done that!
So in a two store small town, competition is a good thing I guess! They renovated it pretty well inside such an old building they could make sweeping changes, but the face lift is good, inside. Outside not much different at all. I'd posted some photos of the Safway closing a few posts back.
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