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Mount Aeneas In Autumn

Liz Rohde

"Mount Aeneas," by Margo Whitmire.

"A few remnants of the summer's huckleberry yield are frozen in subtle indigo spurts amid the spruce-fir forest and fledgling whitebark pines. Mountain ash berries pop in bright bursts of red-orange. Every step along the trail is a satisfying crunch of dirt that has crystallized into little sheaths of ice. A wildlife biologist I met at the trailhead is heading toward the summit to tally the eagles and falcons that fly over the narrow ridge top. The day before, she tells me, a golden eagle flying above suddenly turned itself upside down, grabbed a finch, and flipped right-side up again without missing a beat."

(Broadcast: "Fieldnotes," 10/26/14 & 10/27/14. Listen Sundays at 12:25 p.m. or Mondays at 3:00 p.m., or via podcast.)

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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