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:
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Glacier National Park, Part 1
Labels:
Birds,
Cows,
Glacier National Park,
Horses,
Montana,
Squirrels,
Wildflowers
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