Early morning boat wrangling on Flathead Lake, Montana.

It’s like someone flicked the light switch off. Suddenly, all the summer tourists are gone.

All those burgers and huckleberry shakes with no one to enjoy them… but us.

To finish out Labor Day weekend, we attended a Montana make-your-own-pizza beach party.

The Flathead Lake site was a 100-year-old, renovated boat house. It sat upon a foundation of railroad ties made at the (once upon a time) nearby railroad tie mill.