When the sun hits those peaks…oh my heart sings! We had a wonderful two and a half week vacation camping in Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. 
Life has been busy and full! Trying to get caught up on real life, farm work, and going through pictures from the trip. 🙂
Anyone who has been around me for very long could probably figure out that one of my favorite all time colors is turquoise! It just makes feel happy. 🙂 Maybe it quite coincidental or perhaps it’s from natural influences…
At Grinnell Glacier…
Glacial rivers…
St. Mary’s Falls in Glacier National Park…
Looking down on Grinnell Lake…
Another view with the sun hitting it…
The view of Josephine Lake, Swiftcurrent Lake, and Lake Sherburne…
Our wedding bands in Cancun…
Glorious beaches and turquoise water…
Mayian Ruins and the turquoise ocean…
An old dock going out to the ocean…
Sunrise on a Californian beach…
Canadian Rockies and a glacial river…
Moraine Lake…
Glacial Ice
Lake Louise…
Hmmm…I’m awfully glad that world is filled with such vibrant color!
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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…
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! We sure did! Besides dealing with crouping cold, one kid with pneumonia and another with a sinus infection, we made the best of our situation and had a wonderful time with friends and family over the past couple of weeks. Markus and I were even able to get away for a couple of hours in the wee hours of the morning of New Years Eve…
Before the sunrise…
During sunrise…
A cold but breathtaking walk down to the river…
The sun peaking through the trees…
Happy New Year!
A gorgeous pink peaked sunset on Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, MT.
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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This last summer/fall my husband and I took a little hike on Ptarmigan Trail in Glacier National Park…
It was a gorgeous, blue skied day with the autumn leaves just starting to change…
We spotted these little ptarmigan cross the trail in front of us…
Oh! And we seen this above the trail…
Big ole sow grizzly snacking on berries…
What a beautiful day…
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We’ve been having some pretty spectacular sunsets the last couple of nights. These are the mountains to the east reflecting the sunset…
Then the sunset to the west…
These bighorn sheep are beside a naturally turquoise lake formed by glacial rock flour…
Blue, frozen glacial ice…
Got Milk?. . .
The beautiful turquoise color shown in the photo is the true color of the water. Sometimes called “glacial milk”, the unusual color is due to the presence of “rock flour”, which consists of tiny clay particles formed as rocks stuck to the bottom and sides of a glacier grind against bedrock. This abrasion reduces some of the bedrock to a fine powder that looks like the flour used to make bread. As the ice melts this rock flour is exposed and transported away by meltwater, often into a nearby tarn.
They won’t settle down! . . . .
Meltwater also transports pebbles, sand, and silt into the lake, but these larger rock particles quickly settle to the bottom of the lake. In contrast, the much smaller particles of rock flour remain suspended in the water until the fall when the meltwater stops flowing or the lake freezes over. Only then does the water become calm enough to let rock flour settle to the bottom. A core sample from the middle of the lake would probably reveal alternating layers of silt and clay called “varves”. . . . One layer of each (varve) for every year the lake has been in existence.
Why so blue? . . .
Sunlight includes many different wavelengths of light ranging from the longer “reds” to the shorter “violets” (ROYGBIV). A white T-shirt is white because it reflects all of the wavelengths, a black shirt is colorless because it absorbs all of the wavelengths, and a red shirt is red because it absorbs the OYGBIV and reflects the R (red wavelengths). Apparently the tiny particles of rock flour suspended in the lake are just the right size to reflect more of the blues and some of the greens than any of the other wavelengths.
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