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Thank you for visiting The Haley Hiatus, aka Travels with Barkley, where we're tracking our year-long 2010 travel adventure. We'll post pictures and journal entries as we travel the country by a wandering route from Pennsylvania to, ultimately, Alaska and back. If our trip captures your interest, please stop in occasionally to see what we're up to.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Glacier National Park, Part 1

July 30: Glacier National Park was established in 1910 and is celebrating its centennial this year.


Cows in the woods along the road to the park's fee station:


Many Glacier Hotel and Swiftcurrent Lake:




Fireweed and other wildflowers at the lake:


Columbian Ground Squirrels:






~*~ Some of the sights along the 2.6-mile loop trail around Swiftcurrent Lake ~*~

A momma bird (a type of grouse?) and one of her three babies:






Lupines and other wildflowers along the path:


A Red-tailed Bumble Bee in a Wild Geranium:


Nodding Onion:




The hotel and lake:


Could this little woodland plant be a type of wintergreen?




Alaska Rein Orchid (woohoo!):




Paintbrushes in a rosy magenta with other wildflowers:




Mountain Globemallow (with a wild geranium peaking out underneath):










POISONOUS Green False Hellebore (about 5 feet tall):






Pearly Everlasting in various stages of its modest bloom:








A lovely bud:


What is this little beauty?




A caterpillar we couldn't identify:




Paintbrushes in magenta and rose (with some wonderfully fragrant clover) along the road out of the park:






A grazer on the road:

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