The Magic Hour

July 29, 2020 By Gary Spetz

6 AM, the magic hour on Flathead Lake, Montana.

Filed Under: Anchoring Out, Boating, Fishing, Flathead Lake, Montana, Sunrises/Sunsets

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After The Feast
Alaska Workshop Cruise
All About That Bass
All Good Roofs Go To Heaven
All Of The Fun, None Of The Parental Responsibility
The Amazing Mr. Kite
Another Christmas Past
Anticipation
Apple Squash
The Arrangement
Artist Doing His Art
Attend To An Attendant Asswhoppin
Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
Back On The Huckleberry Trail
Back On The Ski Trails
Back To The Sun Road
Bad Ross
Bad Fisherman
Beach Biking
Beam Me Up To The Mothership
Beaver Stress
Billy Strings
Bird’s View Of Flathead Lake
Blow Up The TV
Boat Motors & Sadists
Bogus Bogguss Groupies
Boredom & Crescent Wrench
Breathe
Broke Ground
Brrrrr!
Bryce Canyon Winter Watercolor
Bubbles Up
Burgers & Huckleberry Shakes
Canoeing Days
Catch Of The Day
Cedar Island
Cedar Island Shore
Christmas Flat Tire
Christmas Marshmallow World
Christmas Par-teh’
Cinco de Mayo Eve
Clear Cool Water
Coast To Coast
Coincidence?
Color Rocks
The Color Show Begins
Colorful Newport
Cool But Colorful
Cool Hand Luke Car Wash
Cord Hell
Crazy Fit
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Browne
Cultured Montanans
Delivery To Mars
Detlef Schrempf
A De-Winterized State Of Mind
Dewy Sweet Hawaii Postal Route
Dino Art
Dog Days
Ah … The Dog Days Of Summer
Don’t Tell Anyone
The Driveway Less Traveled
Dry Tortugas
Dualing-Double-Dog Triple-Axel
Dusting Of Snow
Early September Sunrises On Flathead Lake
Easy Rider Days
Easy Riders
E-Boat 2.0
Ecobee4, An Experience
Elder Punk
Elgin Air Force Armament Museum
Enthusiastic Artists
Failure To Launch
Fair Winds & Following Seas
A Family Of Hucksters
Far From The Maddening Crowd
Father’s Day (Grand) on Flathead Lake
A Fellow Sailor Gone
Festivus For The Rest Of Us
Find Your Beach
A Fine Day To Land On Mars
Fire On The Mountain
Firegirl
First Flathead Lake Voyage
First Kayak Outing
First Mate
Flathead Lake
Flathead Lake Boat Flyover Test
Florida Does Sunrises Well
The Florida Myth
Flowers In The Valley
Flying Bears
The Flying McGlynndas
Football & Puzzle Day
Forever 39
Free Speech 2.0
Fresh Snow
Frightful October
Fruit & Veggies
Glacier & Friends
Glacier NP Sunrise/Moonset
A Glimpse Of Fall
Go Where You Wanna Go
God Only Knows
Going All Out
Going To the (Solstice) Sun Road 2.0
Gonna Be A Nice One
A Good Day For Boaters Ahead
Good Friday Sunrise
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Goodbye Gordon
(Grand)Mother’s Day
The Great Deck Transformation
Green Electric Boat (sort of)
Griz Football
Hanging Out
Happiness Is 74° Lake Water
Happy Accidents
Haunted By Waters
Hazy Days
He Scores!
Healthy Skepticism
Heavenly Sunrise
Hectortunes
Hike To Grinnell Glacier
Hogslop
The Holiday Entertainers
Holiday Minimalists
Holiday Pops
House On A Hill
How Social Distancing Rules Are Created
The Humble Adventurers
I Can’t Go For That
I Love Product Warnings!
I Love The Smell Of Boat Motors In The Morning
Ice Patterns
Icy
The Illusion Of Time
I’m Back, Baby!
The Importance Of Good Pipes
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company
In The Red
Indian Paintbrush 2023
Indian Summer
Insane Virus Research 2.0
Insegrevious Loss For 2017
Into The Fog
Into The Mist
It Is Cold And My Snow Shovel Is Broken
It’s A Hard Knock Life
It’s A Hard Knock Life 2.0
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Summer
It’s Safe To Come Out Again
James Bond Pitch Meeting
Just An Ordinary, Average Guy
Just Another Enchilada Sunset
Just some clear water and colorful rocks …
Just When I Thought I Was Out
Kayaking Wild Horse Island
Keytar Fan Club
Kids & mRNA Jabs
Kind Of Creepy
Klear Kayaking
La Bamba Beach Biking
La Bamba Beach Biking Redux
Lakeside 19th
Land Of The Bottom Line
Last Call For Kid Summer
Last One Out
The Last Plank
Launch Day
Let The Fishing Begin
Leigh Lake
Levi Blom
The Library Cop
Life’s A Beach
Little Cindy Lou Who?
The Lone Boaters
Long Time Gone
Look’n For Warmth In All The Wrong Places
Lost Frog
Lost Giant
Lost in Space
The Lost Summer
Lovers In A Dangerous Time
Lucky Guy
The Magic Hour
Many Glacier Falls
Marlene The Apple
Mary G. Krebs 2022
Mask-less In CA
Me In The Dark
Meant To Be Together
Meanwhile On Mars
Miami Ice
Missoula Lights
Molly Tuttle
Montana & Weather
Montana Boat Wrangling
Montana Morning Rush Hour
Morgan The Iceman
Morning Festivus Lights
Morning Fireball
Morning Mountain Cloud Bank
Morning Sun Dancer
Mornings On Water
The Mother Of All Soups
Mother’s Day In Missoula
Mountain Lake Watercolor
Mountains & Crazy People
Mountaintop Mandolin
Mountaintop Racers
A Mountain Too Close
Music To Edit By
Musical Art
My Not-So-Lofty New Year’s Resolution
My Octopus Teacher
Near Miss Missoula
Needs A Little More Tambourine
NEVER interrupt an artist …
Nosy Neighbor
November 22
The Ocean Ringing In My Brain
Old Growth Ponderosas
The Old Man And The Sea
Oh Deer
The Ol’ Spetz Tuck & Roll Puck Plunge
Old Enough
Once A Sailor, Always A Sailor
Once Upon A Time
One On One
One-Minute Of Flathead Lake Sunrise
One-Minute Flathead Lake Montana Sunrise
One Small Roll
The Opposite
Our New Old Passtime
Our Renaissance Man
Painted By A Friend
Pastel Mornings
Paddychanga Day!
Palm Shadow Beach
A Perfect Spring-like Day On The Snow
Perler Bead’n
The Pink Flash
Pink Pearl
A Pirate Looks at Seventy-Seven
Pirates
Plastigoop
Playing Hooky
Playing With Fire
+1 !!!
Presidential Material
The Price Of Fame
Proper Boat Docking Tutorial
Pulitzer-Smulitzer
Pull & Smash Trees
The Purrfect Storm
Quiet Waters
A Ray Of Morning Light
The Return Of Watercolor Workshops!
The Road To Mary Ronan
Raspberry City
Riding High
Rocket Boys
Rocky Mountain Meltdown
Room With A View
Ruby Beach
Safe Haven
Safe Streets
Sailors & Smokers
Salt, Sand, & Snow
Save The Whale
Scary Sandals
Science
Se¿liš Ksanka Qlispe¿ (or the dam formerly known as Kerr)
The Sea Was Angry
Seals & Wheeler
Seeking Vitamin D
September Landing
Serenity Now
She’s Back, Baby!
Shoe-less, Unicorn-Hoodie-Wearing Castaways
Signage
Sittin’ On A Log Off The Bay
Six Blue Eyes And A Puppy
Skeeko Bay
Skis, Poles, and…
Skiing In The Rain
Slip Slidin’ Away
Sloop John B
The Slow Melt
Snorkeling In Flathead Lake
Snow Aplenty
Snow Girl
Somer Ice
Sometimes Ya Just Feel Like A Little ZZ Top
Son Of A Beach
Soup Alchemy
The Soup Of Soups
Southside of Heaven
Spetzenhaus Watercolors & Hockey Pub
Spontaneous Sunroof Explosion
Spring Arrives In The Rockies
Spring Is Approaching
Spring On Flathead Lake
Steely Doobie Missileman
Sticks & Stones
Still A Music Lion
Still Behind Bars
Sting & Orchestra
Storm Clouds Brewing
Studio CRV
The Stuff That Floats An Artist’s Boat
A Summer Fishing Dream
It’s Summer In Montana!
Summer Is Feeling Short These Days
Summer Kayak Dream
Summer Sunrise Boat Ride On Flathead Lake
Summer Writing Perch
Summer’s End
Sun Road On Summer Solstice
Sunday Morning Wake-up Music
Sunrise & First Snow
Sunset Shore Watercolor
Sunshine & Turning Tamaracks
Supervisor
Sweet Melissa
Sweet Sunday
Swiftcurrent Lake to Lake Josephine
“Taken” By A Photograph Of You
These Days
Things Masks Are Good For
Those Days
Three Amigos, Dos
Throwing Foliage
Time Flies
Time Travel
The Torosizer: A Love Story
The Tortoise & The Hare
Those Long, Glorious, Summer Days
The Trawlerman’s Song
Thinking eSpring
The Toils Of A Performing Artist
A Town In North Ontario
Trout On
Tuba Santas
Twenty Years On A Montana Hilltop
2020
Unknown Legend
Up On The Roof
Vern The Shaman
Walks With A View
Wanted Dead Or Alive!
Warm & Sunny!
Water Colors
Water World 2024
Watercolor Pour
Watercolor Workshop Season 2019
Wayne’s World
What, Me Worry?
Whatchya Gonna Do Now
What Would George Think About Covid-19?
When Grandparents Learn To Fly
When You Are Little, Life Is A Beach
Where The Sun Shines
White House Press Pool For The Day
Wild Horse Island Loop Trail
Wild, Wild Horses
The Wildfire Paradox
Wind Drinkers
Winter 2.0
Winter 2024
Winter Bullseye
Winter Cars
Winter Creek Watercolor Lesson
Winter Immersion
Winter Inversion
Winter Lights
Winter Morning Glow
Winter Solstice Soon
Winter Writing Perch
XC Ski Finale
XCountry 2.0
Yearning
Yet Another Reason To Not Eat Kale
Yet Another Trip Around The Sun
Young’uns