In focus: Top images from 2014

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>South Kalispell</strong> Fire Department firefighters knock down a burning shed in August 2014. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</span></p>

<p class="p1"><strong>World War II veteran</strong> Jim Edmiston wears his old Army cap outside his home in Helena Flats on Nov. 6, 2014. Edmiston’s father, James Gray Edmiston, also was an Army veteran. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Glacier libero Hailee Bennett celebrates a point during the Wolfpack's 3-1 victory against the Bravettes at Flathead High School on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2015. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p class="p1"><strong>The U.S. Air Force</strong> Thunderbirds begin their show on Aug. 30 at the Mountain Madness Air Show at Glacier Park International Airport. The show, featuring Kalispell’s own Maj. Jason Curtis, attracted 25,000 spectators. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>A snowy sunrise over Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park on Monday, April 7, in Northwest Montana. (AP/Daily Inter Lake, Brenda Ahearn)</p>

<p>Trumpeter Swans take off from Flathead Lake on Wednesday morning, February 19, near Bigfork. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Sunrise begins to burn off a low fog on Tuesday, October 7, in Creston. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>A deer stands alert in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 1, in Polebridge. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Caitlin Hills of Kalispell dances with Peter Flahiff, a swing dance instructor from the Atomic Ballroom in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday, April 26 at the Downtown Dance Collective in Missoula. </p>

<p class="p1"><strong>Addie Byrd</strong>, the daughter of Glacier girls soccer coach Brenden Byrd, wrestles with an umbrella on the sidelines of the Wolfpack’s Class AA soccer playoff game against Big Sky on Oct. 23, 2014. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p class="p1">Glacier Wolfpack players celebrate their 56-19 victory over the CMR Rustlers to win the Class AA State Championship in Kalispell on Nov. 21, 2014.  Players include Truman Pisk, Jacob Janke, Brady McChesney and Logan Jones. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p class="p1"><strong>Two-year-old</strong> Maverick Bench grabs the steering wheel of a paver during the Community Action Partnership of Northwest Montana’s Gravelpalooza at the LHC gravel pit near Kalispell. Children got to help drive about 20 pieces of heavy equipment. “There are a lot of excited kids,” LHC owner Jeff Claridge said. “They love it. They just love it. And the adults love it too.” (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p class="p1"><strong>Robert Knox</strong> of Whitefish fly-fishes on the North Fork of the Flathead on July 16, 2014, just outside Glacier National Park. </p><p class="p1"> </p>