A week in Montana now with an overnight in St. Regis and a drive up the Flathead Valley and back through the Rockies to St. Mary's Lake on the east side of Glacier National Park. Along the way I photographed one of the ubiquitous expresso stands that seem to anchor every junction in this state, not what you might expect in this harddrinking and harddriving state (until a few years ago there was no speedlimit on Montana highways).
We have also stopped by a couple of small Episcopal churches in Jeffers (the Madison River valley) and Emigrant (where we are camped this morning in the Paradise Valley, access to the northern entrance of Yellowstone N.P.) Small still works in the West, and is more the norm than parishes with fulltime priests. 
These congregations are usually part of an area ministry served by one priest. Others are served by retired priests. And for Trinity in Jeffers and St. Johns in Emigrant, based on their bulletin boards, their ministries appear active and well-supported. Faith works here where two or three,or ten or twenty are gathered.
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