Day 225 Glacier Lily
We had hoped to get some good images of the Glacier Lily’s coming through the snow. There were just a few, with most still under the heavy banks of snow.
We had hoped to get some good images of the Glacier Lily’s coming through the snow. There were just a few, with most still under the heavy banks of snow.
Walter just got home from another fishing excursion in Canada. Look what he brought back. Guess he figured Nick and the kids would be more impressed with donuts than fish.
This little guy was more than happy to pose for the camera up on Logan Pass. I was pretty proud of myself that I actually made it to the top without a heights panic attack. Am I getting better? I sure hope so. Curtis tells me that I need to get ready for the road to  the volcano in Hawaii. I sure hope the 5DM4 is out by then. It would be fun to have a new camera for the trip.
On my recent trip to Glacier, I took lots of photos of the few wildflowers that were blooming. These three were really hard to identify, so I enlisted my faithful friends and co-photogs for help. Did I ever learn a wonderful lesson from them. When you take closeups of flowers you are going to need to identify, make sure you include a shot of the full plant including the leaves. It makes it really difficult to identify without the foliage. Thanks to Linda Martin and Tom Ulrich for their help and suggestions. I do believe that identifying wildflowers is a whole lot harder than identifying birds! I have some great resource books and still struggle.
This is Valerian.
This is Birch Leaf Spirea.
This is Yarrow.
Here is a shot from the state fair photo studio that we set up in the photography exhibit. Hard to believe that my grandson has grown up so much. I think that people wandering through the exhibit enjoyed seeing how a working studio actually functions.
This is the view of the river just across the road from my cabin at the Glacier Institute. Â Beautiful view, don’t you think? The rafters put in right across the river. I will be heading back there in a couple of weeks for another workshop and another one in September. Can’t get enough of Glacier these days.
This little ground squirrel looked like he was on his way to smell that Glacier Lily. This was taken at Logan Pass where the snow was still rather deep.
This butterfly was resting on a daisy close to the spot where a woman drowned a few weeks ago in Glacier Park. A very dangerous place to be close to the water. I was surprised to read a sign nearby that said the #1 cause of death in the park is drowning.
If you guessed Bear Grass, you are right. That was the immature blossom and this is what it looks like blooming.