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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Our crew headed to Many Glaciers this past weekend. We ended up hitting a pointy rock, popping a tire and having a flat, then after changing the tire and making it the rest of the way to Many Glacier it started to pour buckets and didn’t see any wildlife and couldn’t even get out of the car without getting soaked, so no hikes. We decided we would head back home and then the kids ended up getting hungry, so we stopped a ways away in Two Medicine. It was just cloudy there and we were able to enjoy a nice little picnic and do a little hiking and spotted many wildflowers and even a black bear.
At Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park…
On our little walk we discovered these gems. A lot of these I’m not sure what they are… …
A big, fat Bumbler…
A Fairy Slipper, Calypso bulbosa…
Western Virgin’s Bower… Clematis occidentalis 
At the end of the hike was Running Eagle Falls, running at full bore. Normally it’s just pouring out the cave in the middle of the falls…
Crossing the bridge…
Holding daddy’s hand…
The kids showing off their heart-shaped rocks…
We also spotted a Black Bear…
Dancing Aspens…
Lots of Shooting Stars..
More Blue wildflowers…
Cheers to long spring days spent in beautiful places…
Sure has been feeling like Spring around here, yesterday we had almost 80 degree weather! It’s ‘only’ 62 here today, and we can really feel the difference. 
Some of the trees are budding out…
Even the bushes are growing plump buds…
The Service Berry bushes and starting to leaf out, this one even has an old berry still attached that the birds missed.
Crocus are popping up too!
Oregon Grape is starting to get flower buds on it too!
This week has been a bit overcast and with some rain, cold at night but warming up to sweatshirt weather by mid-morning.
The birds are starting to appear…
Some definite spring signs are the Robins…
Bluebirds, both female and male…
Lambs arriving…
We’ll soon have Icelandic lambs arriving too!
We are still waiting on green grass, flowers and bees though!
While driving to Many Glaciers, my poor, tired husband needed a bit of a nap. He pulled over here and took quick nap while I got out to explore a bit…
The Aspens trees were just leafing out…
Some Mallards…
Bufflehead ducks..
Glacier Lilies…
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A handsome Meadowlark caught in a downpour at The National Bison Range…
Even though it was raining up where we were, here’s the view below…
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On our way up to East Glacier, we stopped at this waterfall. Normally, just a trickle it was roaring full bore due to the melting snow higher up.
There was enough water that there were two arms to the waterfall…
Below the falls in the moist soil were these beautiful white trilliums in full bloom…
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