One of the many beautiful streams in Olympic National Park….
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Vacation…
We are back after a 15 day vacation. My husband had a business meeting in Seattle so we (the whole family plus Grammy ~ 10 people in all) spent a couple of days hanging around there and then we crossed on the ferry and started our Highway 101 adventure! We toured through parts of Olympic National Park and then followed the coast down to San Francisco and then cut across California, Nevada and Idaho to make it back to Bozeman, MT just in time for my husband to have another business meeting then headed home. This is one of the thousands of pictures I took on our little trip and was taken in Olympic National Park….
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Beautiful Waterfalls
Sunrise at Swifcurrent Falls…
Trillium…
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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Perk Benefits…
My husband has a very demanding job that leaves him on the road a vast majority of the time. He works as an agronomist and is a agronomic adviser. It is hard for both of us for him to be gone so much and spread so thin, especially with a full-time job of raising sheep, and having eight kids. Occasionally though, there are some perk benefits to his job. Over Thanksgiving week, my beloved had to attend a conference in Canada and I was able to go with. My parents watched the kids, our oldest son watched the farm and we headed off. The conference was in Banff National Park. I was pretty excited to get to see some new country and just hang out with my hubby. When we arrived at our motel, I think my jaw hit the ground…
Umm, ya! My first stay in a castle! Fairmont Banff Hot Spring. The first day I thoroughly enjoyed exploring around outside the castle and taking a few pictures (of course)!
I hiked down to the frozen falls…
The view from our room!
My husband had meeting all day long, so the second day, I slept in late, had a wonderful lunch, enjoyed my first massage and hung out in the mineral pools and spa!
The evenings we spent wining and dining.
Our last morning there, which happened to be Thanksgiving morning we awoke to a wonderful sunrise and headed for home…
It was a beautiful day for traveling, cold but plenty of sunshine!
A couple of pictures I took with my phone…
We made good time home. I really had to just appreciate the scenery and bite my tongue to not stop at every beautiful spot! We will have to go back again when we have a bit more time. But we did make it home for Thanksgiving dinner with the family…
Cameron Falls…
A Little Hike…
In Waterton, Alberta we enjoyed a little hike to a beautiful waterfall…
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Golden/Evening
This week’s prompt at Nurture Photography Summer 2013 are Golden/Evening.
Glacier Lilies where blooming at the top of Logan Pass this time through! My favorite golden hued flower.
Species Description and Taxonomy
This wild relative of the garden tulip, also known as the yellow avalanche lily or dogtooth violet, occupies mountainous elevations of western North America. The pendent flowers have six large, showy yellow “petals” (more technically, tepals) that are abruptly bent backward toward the base. Mature plants typically make 2 leaves and 0-3 flowers. The fruits are cylindrical, three-chambered capsules, containing up to 60 large seeds if well-pollinated. By late July, the leaves have withered, and the plant overwinters from August to June as an underground corm similar to a tulip bulb.
Distribution and Habitat
Glacier lilies thrive in supalpine meadows from northern California and southern Colorado to southern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta. They bloom as the snow melts, following the snow line as it recedes up slopes in the spring (see photo at right).
Ecological Relationships
Glacier lilies provide food for a variety of animals, including pocket gophers, mule deer, elk, and bighorn sheep. Grizzly and black bears may affect plant distribution by foraging on the corms; aboriginal humans also used corms as food. Bumble bee queens are the principal pollinators.
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Lots of Glacier Lilies! 🙂 
Some of my favorite evening pictures from this summer include…
The setting sun hitting Bird Woman Falls.
A golden evening river…
And some favorite silhouettes that I have shared already but…
Coming Down…
The view from afar…
The whole falls…
View of the lower falls…
The bridge…
Love these moss covered trees!
Another little stream sneaking through…
The upper falls…
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The view of the lower falls from the bridge…
A little ways above the bridge. I was soaking wet, so was the camera.
Going to find a HOT cup of coffee…
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