A country scene
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Handsome - Norwegian Fjord Horse?
Before the next snowfall
Agouti, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Agouti, Trinidad
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Thirsty Bighorn Sheep
Farm cat, High River Christmas Bird Count
Farm dog
Gravel and dust - a favourite road
pebble beach
Gravel For Road Works.
Gravel
beside a gravel road in the badlands
Ruta 40 - and the road.................continues
Ruta 23 - road to Lago del Desierto
Clouds over Fitz Roy - 2
Gritty.
A road to somewhere
Before the snow arrived
A popular row of old granaries
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
Rumely Oil Pull Tractor, Pioneer Acres, Alberta
Plains Garter Snake / Thamnophis radix
Green-winged Teal and Black-bellied Plover
A road less travelled
Licking salt off the road
The look that says: "Please feed me"
Golden Tegu, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Agouti, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Golden Tegu, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Golden Tegu lizard, Asa Wright Narture Centre, Tri…
Agouti, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Logging piles in the Porcupine Hills
Winter textures
Winter in the Nanton, Alberta, area
The Ghosts of Easter Past
driving in the sky
Lac du Salagou
Lac du Salagou
Lac du Salagou
Hattem
The Road Narrows.
And they call this winter (in Alberta)?
Travelling the Cobble Flats road
Pine Siskin
Ruffed Grouse - from my archives
rainbow gravel
Benacre cliffs: Norwich Crag cross-bedding detail
Benacre cliffs - Norwich Crag cross-bedded sands
Norwich Crag at Benacre cliffs
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Licking salt from the road
On 10 August 2017, I finally did a drive that I had never done before. I'm always hearing or reading about Sheep River Provincial Park, but it was not until maybe three weeks ago, that I got round to looking on Google to see exactly where it is. I found that maybe the first half of the drive, as far as Turner Valley, I had done before, which helped. The drive west from Turner Valley to just past the Sheep River falls was all new, so I "drove" the whole length on Google Earth to see what it was like, before I actually went there..
The whole distance from home and back was 195 km, so it was a much shorter trip than when I drove all the way south to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre (511 km), on 3 August. I was hoping to see some wildlife and beautiful scenery, but the most important purpose for this trip was simply to make myself do a new drive. I almost didn't go, as I woke up later than I had planned, not feeling the greatest, and didn't leave home till 11:15 am. Glad I pushed myself out the front door, though.
The only wildlife I saw was a Mule Deer doe, that I saw in two different places. She was looking for salt along the road and couldn't make up her mind whether to cross the road in front of me or not. I sat in my car and waited, and eventually she did cross and ended up near the passenger side of my car.
When I was almost at the very end of this road, I stopped to take a look at the Sheep River Falls. It takes just a short walk from the parking lot to get a view of the falls below. Towards the end of my walk, black clouds rolled in and there was a bit of thunder accompanied by a sprinkling of rain. Short-lived, thankfully.
As for scenery, the smoke continued from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires. This resulted in poor landscape shots, at least with my little point-and-shoot. I did post just a couple of scenic views, not for their photographic merit, but just to remind myself what the landscape in that area is like.
The whole distance from home and back was 195 km, so it was a much shorter trip than when I drove all the way south to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre (511 km), on 3 August. I was hoping to see some wildlife and beautiful scenery, but the most important purpose for this trip was simply to make myself do a new drive. I almost didn't go, as I woke up later than I had planned, not feeling the greatest, and didn't leave home till 11:15 am. Glad I pushed myself out the front door, though.
The only wildlife I saw was a Mule Deer doe, that I saw in two different places. She was looking for salt along the road and couldn't make up her mind whether to cross the road in front of me or not. I sat in my car and waited, and eventually she did cross and ended up near the passenger side of my car.
When I was almost at the very end of this road, I stopped to take a look at the Sheep River Falls. It takes just a short walk from the parking lot to get a view of the falls below. Towards the end of my walk, black clouds rolled in and there was a bit of thunder accompanied by a sprinkling of rain. Short-lived, thankfully.
As for scenery, the smoke continued from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires. This resulted in poor landscape shots, at least with my little point-and-shoot. I did post just a couple of scenic views, not for their photographic merit, but just to remind myself what the landscape in that area is like.
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