Glacier National Park, Part 2

Bill enjoying Duck Lake, and Barkley not so sure about it:














August 1 A sweet little family on Duck Lake:


We left Duck Lake Campground because we were able to reserve one night a few miles down the road in Glacier National Park's St. Mary Campground. Some of Barkley's Duck Lake friends say good-bye (look at that sweet boy's crooked nose).






A border crossing contingent:


Our spot in St. Mary Campground:




A type of wild clematis? (with a bit of fireweed in the left background):








A folded-wing beauty:






On the trail between the campground and Glacier National Park's St. Mary Visitor Center:


The center is attractive with its modern design and native plant beds.






Osprey at the Visitor Center:


Wanting to do some hiking, we took the hour-long shuttle bus ride to Logan Pass on Going-to-the-Sun Road. But heavy rain and hail canceled our hiking ideas and packed the Logan Pass Visitor Center to the gills. We waited several hours for a bus that had room to take us back down to the St. Mary Visitor Center.










A rainbow at the Weeping Wall:




Wild rose bud:

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: