Chapter 37: More of Whitefish Lake

In another, yet this time more careful, review of Dad's slides, I discovered that, though he might not have had much of an eye for portraiture, he knew how to frame a landscape composition.  I offer this first slide, an elevated view of Whitefish Lake, as Exhibit A.  (Exhibit B, which gets us ahead of this blog's timeline, is found here.)  The gloomy, not-quite-ominous ambience is more in tune with how I felt during an unscheduled return visit to this area in September 1974.

A view of the cabin where the Nelson family stayed for a week, I assume.  The car, a 1955 Buick, is a relatively recent purchase, one in which Dad must have offered a particularly generous "minister's" deal from a local dealership.  It is the car in which a family of six, four children ranging in age from 7 1/2 to 3 months, moved from Great Falls, Montana, to Warren, Pennsylvania, in July 1957.  I have many pleasant memories from this long trip.  Wish Mom and Dad were still around to offer an alternative perspective.

I assume that's Whitefish Lake, considerably smaller than Flathead Lake, in the background.  Best evidence.  Before returning to Great Falls, we drove through Glacier National Park, which wouldn't have taken us within viewing distance of Flathead Lake.