Summer Calm

August 2, 2026 By Gary Spetz

A calm, slightly smokey, summer evening on Flathead Lake.

Filed Under: Boating, Montana

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A Complete Unknown
A-Team
After The Feast
All About That Bass
All Good Roofs Go To Heaven
All Of The Fun, None Of The Parental Responsibility
The Amazing Mr. Kite
An Early Spring
And It’s Still Alright
Another Christmas Past
Anticipation
Apple Squash
The Arrangement
The Art Of Pumpkins, Campfires, And Logs
Attend To An Attendant Asswhoppin
Awaiting The Summer Tide
Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
Back On The Huckleberry Trail
Back On The Ski Trails
Back To Looking For Trout In All The Wrong Places
Back To The Sun Road
Bad Ross
Beach Biking
Beaver Stress
Biking On Mars (With-Creosote/Bursage-Bushes)
Billy Strings
Bird’s View
Bird’s View Of Flathead Lake
Blow Up The TV
Boredom & Crescent Wrench
Breathe
Brrrrr!
Bryce Canyon Winter Watercolor
Bubbles Up
Burgers & Huckleberry Shakes
Catch Of The Day
Cedar Island Shore
Chicago Band Tribute
Christmas Marshmallow World
Christmas Par-teh’
Cinco de Mayo Eve
Coincidence?
The Color Show Begins
Colorful Newport
Cord Hell
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Browne
Cultured Montanans
Delivery To Mars
Detlef Schrempf
A De-Winterized State Of Mind
Dino Art
Dog Days
The Driveway Less Traveled
Dry Tortugas
Dusting Of Snow
Easy Rider Days
Easy Riders
E-Boat 2.0
Ecobee4, An Experience
Elder Punk
Enthusiastic Artists
Failure To Launch
Fair Winds & Following Seas
A Family Of Hucksters
Far From The Maddening Crowd
A Fellow Sailor Gone
Festivus For The Rest Of Us
Fire On The Mountain
Firegirl
First Flathead Lake Voyage
First Kayak Outing
Flathead Lake Boat Flyover Test
Flathead Lake’s Cedar Island Water Trail
Flowers In The Valley
Flying Bears
The Flying McGlynndas
Football & Puzzle Day
Free Speech 2.0
Fresh Snow
Frightful October
Glacier & Friends
Go Where You Wanna Go
God Only Knows
Going To the (Solstice) Sun Road 2.0
Gonna Be A Nice One
Good Friday Sunrise
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Goodbye Gordon
Gotta Keep On Keep’n On
(Grand)Mother’s Day
The Great Deck Transformation
Green Electric Boat (sort of)
Griz Football
Hanging Out
Happiness Is 74° Lake Water
Happy Accidents
He Scores!
Healthy Skepticism
Heavenly Sunrise
Hectortunes
Hogslop
The Holiday Entertainers
Holiday Minimalists
Holiday Pops
Hollow Coves
House On A Hill
How Social Distancing Rules Are Created
Huckleberry Harvest Time
The Humble Adventurers
I Can’t Go For That
I Love Product Warnings!
I Love The Smell Of Boat Motors In The Morning
I’m Sorry Dave…
Ice Patterns
Icy
The Illusion Of Time
The Importance Of Good Pipes
In The Red
Indian Paintbrush 2023
Indian Summer
Insane Virus Research 2.0
Into The Fog
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 When I Thought I Was Out
Kayak Shallow
Keep The Wolves Away
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
The Last Day Of Indian Summer
Last One Out
The Last Plank
Launch Day
Leigh Lake
Levi Blom
The Library Cop
Little Cindy Lou Who?
Logarhythm
The Lone Boaters
Long Time Gone
The Lost Summer
Lovers In A Dangerous Time
Lucky Guy
The Magic Hour
Many Glacier Falls
Marlene’s Logging Camp 2025
Mars (With Creosote & Bursage Bushes)
Mary G. Krebs 2022
Mask-less In CA
Me In The Dark
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 Mountain Cloud Bank
Mornings On Water
The Mother Of All Soups
Mountain Lake Watercolor
Mountains & Crazy People
Mountaintop Mandolin
Mountaintop Racers
Music To Edit By
Musical Art
My Octopus Teacher
Near Miss Missoula
Needs A Little More Tambourine
New Radio Talents
Nosy Neighbor
November 22
The Ocean Ringing In My Brain
The Old Man And The Sea
Oh Deer
Oh Good, More Logarhythm
The Ol’ Spetz Tuck & Roll Puck Plunge
Old Enough
On The Subject Of Time
Once A Sailor, Always A Sailor
Once Upon A Time
One-Minute Of Flathead Lake Sunrise
One-Minute Flathead Lake Montana Sunrise
Our New Old Passtime
Our Renaissance Man
Painted By A Friend
Paddychanga Day!
Palm Shadow Beach
Parentless In Montana
A Perfect Spring-like Day On The Snow
Perler Bead’n
The Pink Flash
A Pirate Looks at Seventy-Seven
Pirates
Playing Hooky
Playing With Fire
Presidential Material
The Price Of Fame
The Purrfect Storm
Quiet Waters
A Ray Of Morning Light
The Return Of Watercolor Workshops!
Raspberry City
Read By
Riding High
Rocket Boys
Rocky Mountain Meltdown
Ruby Beach
Safe Haven
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
Season’s End In Glacier National Park
Seeking Vitamin D
Seminole Wind
Serenity Now
She’s Back, Baby!
Shoe-less, Unicorn-Hoodie-Wearing Castaways
Sittin’ On A Log Off The Bay
Skis, Poles, and…
Skiing In The Rain
Sloop John B
The Slow Melt
Snow Aplenty
Snow Girl
Somer Ice
Sometimes Ya Just Feel Like A Little ZZ Top
Soup Alchemy
The Soup Of Soups
Southside of Heaven
Spetzenhaus Watercolors & Hockey Pub
Spontaneous Sunroof Explosion
Spring Arrives In The Rockies
Springtime For Artists
Steely Doobie Missileman
Step Inside This House
Sticks & Stones
Still A Music Lion
Sting & Orchestra
Studio CRV
The Stuff That Floats An Artist’s Boat
Summer Fun
Summer Kayak Dream
Summer’s End
Sun Road On Summer Solstice
Sunday Morning Wake-up Music
Sunset Shore Watercolor
Supervisor
Sweet Melissa
“Taken” By A Photograph Of You
These Days
Things Masks Are Good For
Those Days
Three Amigos, Dos
3 Generations Of Downhillers
Time Flies
The Tortoise & The Hare
Thelma & James
Those Long, Glorious, Summer Days
The Trawlerman’s Song
Thinking eSpring
The Toils Of A Performing Artist
A Town In North Ontario
Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano
Tuba Santas
Twenty Years On A Montana Hilltop
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Unknown Legend
Up On The Roof
Vern The Shaman
Wanted Dead Or Alive!
Warm & Sunny!
The Warmth Of The Sun
Water Colors
Water World 2024
Whatchya Gonna Do Now
What Would George Think About Covid-19?
When Grandparents Learn To Fly
Where The Sun Shines
The Wildfire Paradox
Wind
Wind Drinkers
Winter 2.0
Winter 2024
Winter Creek Watercolor Lesson
Winter Immersion
Winter Lights
Winter Morning Glow
XC Ski Finale
XCountry 2.0
Yet Another Reason To Not Eat Kale
Yet Another Trip Around The Sun
Young’uns