The Canadians last week announced a moratorium on mining the North Fork, which is fantastic news.
I'd been hoping to show a little cheerier picture of the landscape, but it's been fairly dark and dreary. This is the sun yesterday afternoon. I shot it with a Leica M9, Leica's new digital full-frame camera. So far I haven't taken many landscape shots with it. It's just been too gray and cloudy. "It's like getting a new pair of skates and then all it does is rain," my wife said.

I did, however, get this shot of a herd of elk with the Nikon, while I was hoping the skies would clear....