If I go see the movie "A river Runs Through it". will I

[Ptah]

be a fly fisherperson?

[havocmom]

1. Didn't work for me

but sure as hell made it hard to walk outta the theater there at Park Mall in August!

[Ptah]

2. Hey, Montana,

Good to see you.

I am concerned, you said your winter chores involved picking weeds.
Sounds like a very mild winter.

I've lost track, how are the Griz doing this basketball season?


:hi:

[havocmom]

3. 59 yesterday - thermometer is in the shade too.

Don't follow Griz roundball. Roundball is silly looking.

[Ptah]

4. I remember when I was a young man on my parents' farm,

Forty degrees F below zero.

I have a painting done by one of my Grandmothers,
She painted it in 1962, from the east shore of
St. Mary's Lake in Glacier Park.

It is quite apperent that the glaciers are receding.

I heard a rumor that the glaciers on the continental divide will be
gone in less than thirty years.




:scared:

[XOKCowboy]

22. Didn't hit you but it hit a bullseye with millions of guys...

I remember because all the trout streams close to Denver were shoulder to shoulder!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Ptah!

That is a wonderful movie! I loved it.......

You should go see it.......

And there's something else you should see.....ME!

I'm running a thread on my hair down the page a bit.......:rofl:


:loveya: :hug:

[Ptah]

6. Not only have I seen it,

I read the book, and we had a birthday party (90th)
for my grandmother at the location for the movie.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. How wonderful!

I have never read the book.......

Much less seen the location for the movie! The countryside looked just wonderful....

Suddenly I am itching to go to Montana, with my digital camera......

I'll bet you had a wonderful time, with the location, and your grandmother's birthday and all......

:hug:

[Ptah]

13. I took this picture of one of her paintings for my friend

Heidi.

I'll share it with you:





:loveya: :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. That is a wonderful painting, my dear Ptah......

Your grandmother had quite a lot of talent!

I wish I had been up in that part of the country.....I've never seen it...

A photographer's paradise! And a painter's as well!


:loveya: :hug:

[Ptah]

19. My grandmother had the patent on talent.

I could, and often do, go on for days about her
contribution to her community.

:loveya:

She taught how to grow stuff:


She taught composition:


I learned many lessons in her kitchen:


Yada, yada

:hug: :hug:

[AKPacker]

7. Maybe not

but I bet you have a different outlook on life. The ending puts it all in perspective.

[Ptah]

8. I grew up in Montana, and was only trying to create a copy cat

from the "Brokeback made me gay theme"

Yoiur are correct, it is a powerful story.

I imagine you are near some running water.

I live in Tucson, AZ now and we hardly ever have running water.

I miss running water.

[havocmom]

11. LOL Used to live next to Ft Lowell Park. One day during monsoon...

we has several storms hit and that river was running bank to bank and almost over on both sides. I took the dog for a walk thru the park and to the riverbed. Some day care workers had about 15 four-year-olds all standing safely away from the river but where they got a good view of the churning surge of muddy water. The kids all stood there, literally with their jaws opened, eyes huge and amazed. Some had hands over ears as the noise was incredible.

It dawned on me, they had probably NEVER seen running water outside!

Sometimes, even in Tucson, a river runs. But good luck catching sand trout.

[Ptah]

14. Yes, you have described it well.

My son was born in 1983, the year of
a significant flood. Two years ago, I traveled to Montana for
a visit with extended family in Deer Lodge, Missoula, Great Falls
and points beyond.
I had actually forgotten what a river is.

Water, day and night.

:shrug:

[AKPacker]

15. Alaska

Fly fishing and tying are my therapy.

[Ptah]

16. Since I grew up on the prairie, south of Alberta,

I have always imagined the more north I might travel,
I would only be exposed to colder temperatures than
I was used too, so I have always imagines Alaska to be
forbiddingly cold.

You make it sound quite attractive.

[AKPacker]

18. Alaska is huge.

If you overlay Alaska on the continental US, Barrow is in far north Minnisota. I am in Florida!

[Yavin4]

9. No. But It Will Make You Gay for Brad Pitt

Seriously

[havocmom]

12. Tom Skerrtt for me!

:P

[rustydog]

20. " ...But when I am alone in the half-light of the canyon

all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul
and the memories of the big blackfoot river and a four-count rhythm
and the hope that a fish will rise.

The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks
from the basement of time.

On the rocks are timeless raindrops
beneath the rocks are the words
some of the words are theirs...

I am haunted by waters

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. Unfortunately for me, the title should have been "A Nap Runs Through It"

I almost made it through the opening credits, then it was all dreams of killer bears and three-eyed dancing girls.

[XOKCowboy]

23. Flyfishing will make you a fly fishperson

The movie has great cinematography but it ain't like being on one of those river with a fly rod.