Nice Hat

Nice hat, Baby N.

Mountains

Photo Effect

Cartoon photo effect on flower watercolor.

Orange Crocus

Orange Crocus - watercolor

5x7

The Pink Pink Petunia

The Pink Pink Petunia - watercolor

5x7

Blue and Violet

Blue and Violet - watercolor

5x7

Tulips

Tulips - watercolor

5x7

Sunflowers II

Sunflowers II - watercolor

5x7

Poppies II

Poppies II - watercolor
5x7

Garden Mix

Garden Mix - watercolor

5x7

Absroka Beartooth

Absaroka Mountains - watercolor
5x7

Orange Sky

The End of the Road

The End of the Road - watercolor

5x7

Harvesting with Steam

Harvesting with a steam driven tractor.

Early Football

Early football players for the Montana College of

Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

Sage Bush

 

Sage Brush - watercolor

5x7

 

 



Early In The Morning

Early Morning in Montana.

The Old Home Place

The Old Home Place - watercolor

Don't Fence Me In

The Mission Range

Into the Badlands

Into the Badlands - watercolor
5x7

The Scenic Flathead

The scenic Flathead at Burgess Ranch.

The River Near Perma

The Flathead River near Perma, Montana.

Where Mountains Meet the Prairie

Montana, Where Mountains Meet the Prairie - watercolor

Summer Flower Collage

Summer Flower Collage

Prairie Grass

Prairie Grass - watercolor

Pike's Memorial

July 7, 2013

Pike's Memorial

Patriotic July

July, the patriotic month.

This Bud's for You

This bud's for you.

I'm Almost Ready For A Refill!

Montana In The Morning

Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge

Ninepipe

Fort Ellis

Headquarters, Fort Ellis, Montana

An Obituary

Pershing A. "Pike" Sutherland - October 19, 1918 - June 14, 2013

Pershing “Pike” Sutherland passed quietly to be with his Lord June 14, 2013.

 Pike was born October 19, 1918 in Garden City, Utah, one of 13 children born to John G. and Bessie (Adams) Sutherland.

At an early age he came to Conrad with his family where they farmed land adjacent to the Jack Price farm East of Conrad.  Pike attended a country school for eight years before graduating from Conrad High School.

Pike served with the Army Field Artillery and Coastal Artillery in the Aleutian Islands during the Second World War, attaining the rank of Technical Sergeant.  At the close of the war he was assigned to Fort Riley, Kansas where he was honorably discharged.

While serving at Fort Riley, Pike met Doris Gurwell and they were married in March, 1946, in Humbolt, Kansas.  Pike and Doris have two sons, Jeff (Connie) Sutherland, of Conrad, and Terry (Denise) Sutherland of Bozeman.

After the war Pike went to work for Ed Colby and Colby’s Texaco.  For many years Pike was employed by Arnot’s Furniture in Conrad, working as a salesman, furniture repairman and flooring installer.  Later he was an independent flooring contractor.  Doris and Pike purchased the Tastee Freeze Drive In and operated it until 1990 when he and Doris retired.

Pike is survived by his wife Doris, sons Terry and Jeff, five grandchildren and  nine great grandchildren.

Pike was the last remaining member of this family and would have been 95 in October.  He was preceded in death by his parents, John G. and Bessie, sisters Eliza, Melba, Nettie, and Della, and brothers Edward, Theodore, John, George, Oscar, Ralph, William and Ross, and two half- brothers, James and Henry.

Reading the Paper

You can have the sports section - I'll 

take the coupons.

A Collage

The Sleeping Giant

The Sleeping Giant, near Gates of the Mountains, Montana.

Best Dressed

Headlines:  Gramma Denise voted "Best Dressed" in

Camus Prairie competition.