We have had so many cloudy nights this entire winter, I was starting to wonder what a star filled sky looked like. On Friday we had one of our first clear nights so we headed up to Glacier…
Star Trails…
Big Dipper over Lake McDonald…
Clear night, clear water…
Belton Bridge lit up by the moon…
The view from the bridge…
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The Mountain Bluebirds have arrived and with it so has spring! On Sunday after church the kids along with their father built some bluebird boxes to put up around the farm. Hopefully they will help entice more bluebirds to nest and hang around for the summer… 
Their finished boxes!
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Even though the stump itself is lifeless, life flourishes…
Fairy cups…
A spider’s web encased in dew…
Blue lichen…
Left-over leaves from last fall and another spider’s web…
Catkin’s from a bush growing out of the stump…
Even a new little seedling…
My husband and I took a drive along the north end of Flathead Lake, we found some farmers fields flooded from the melting snow. In the huge puddles we saw some Northern Pintail ducks…
Slim and long-necked, the Northern Pintail has a distinctive silhouette. The male is easy to identify by his striking markings and long tail, but even the female can be recognized by her graceful, long-necked shape.
Cool Facts
- Like the Mallard, the Northern Pintail breeds in a variety of habitats all across northern North America and Eurasia. Also like the Mallard, island populations have splintered off and evolved into separate species. Two closely related forms can be found on Crozet and Kerguelen islands in the very southern Indian Ocean, known as Eaton’s Pintail (Anas eatoni
- The Northern Pintail is among the earliest nesting ducks in North America, beginning shortly after ice-out in many northern areas.
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Patiently awaiting the arrival of spring, we had temperatures in the low 60’s today! It might just be here soon!
Earlier this fall my husband and I had the opportunity to stay in Jasper, Alberta in Jasper National Park. We had to be home in Kalispell, MT the next day. We had a whirlwind day with lots of stops, picture taking and rushing. Definitely not ideal but it was so neat to see the glacial icefields and various other sights along the way. Today I’ll share with you all the one stop at the Icefields, that my husband in particular was very excited to see…
The cool blue, turquoise glacial ice was beautiful…
Some rocks with glacial striations…
Rugged mountain peaks…
More glacial striations! It’s unimaginable the amount of pressure and force of the ice to make these marks on these rocks, let alone that they carved these valley out…
The icefield…
More turquoise glacial ice…
Picture opportunity… 
A tour bus going up the steep mountain side up to the glacier…
Glacial snow covered in pebbles that were carried in the l layers of snow that use to be above the snow/ice but have now melted. It’s quite a thing to think about the water flowing besides the ice and wonder when it was in liquid form last?
The beautiful scenery was breathtaking! 
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