"Fog in the Trees" photographed in the Muir Woods just north of San Francisco by Tony L. Callahan

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Spain-based NaturEner officially (not literally) broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a 210-megawatt wind farm on the hills between Cut Bank and Shelby, the Great Falls Tribune reports.

The $500 million, 140-turbine wind farm, the first phase of which is scheduled to be completed by October, will be Montana's largest. The only other of similar scale is Judith Gap (at 135 MW).

Our destination this day was Graceland. We got into Memphis at lunch time, so we stopped at Central Barbecue and had two slabs of ribs. Smothered in sauce and served with greens, slaw and beans, these ribs were the best meal of the trip so far. I mean, slow-smoked, fall-off-the-bone tender, absolutely killer, ground-zero Memphis-style ribs. We decided that we would also have ribs for dinner after Graceland. I just love seeing Speaker and Rusty work on a rib until they leave the bone sparkling clean. I felt like a papa lion proudly watching his cubs dismantle a water buffalo.

Then it was time for Graceland. We drove south through the city along Elvis Presley Blvd., which goes through the ghetto. We got to the complex, paid for our upgraded tickets (which included tours of the Caddy-infested car museum and the Lisa Marie, his big ol’ jet airliner), and hopped onto the shuttle to the mansion across the street.