Lake Koocanusa--Carolan's Home for the Week

My daughter Carolan and some of her colleagues in the Montana Conservation Corps are working in campgrounds along the banks of Lake Koocanusa this week (see the image below). This lake/reservoir straddles the US-Canadian border and is very close to the Montana-Idaho border. The name of the lake comes form KOOtenai +CANada+USA. Pretty clever!

I'm sure Carolan and her friends are thinking about their former colleague Mark Slovich, who died a week ago in a hiking accident in Utah. Mark's funeral mass is tomorrow at St. Bede the Venerable Church in Holland, PA, just outside of Philadelphia. We light a candle for Mark and his family.

Top image is Lake Koocanusa; bottom image is Libby Dam, with Lake Koocanusa (from Wikipedia).