Glacier Waterfall

Seems Silly Now

Well it didn't rain on us the next day. . .it snowed. It seems silly now that we're into winter, but it was so exciting to see snow on September 5th!

It did get slickery and that really narrow road made me a wee bit more nervous.

Saint Mary Lake, the next morning. . .

Loved the low clouds just sitting there - this was shot through the side window of the van.

There was a path that lead to this bluff jutting out into the lake and I stood in the wild wind and looked this way. . .

. . . and that. . .

. . . and over there.

Just a drive by shooting, lol.

This is Lake Sherburne, a little further north.

Falling water everywhere, I loved the balanced rock and the turquoise water.

Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park

Mountain Flowers Macro Monday

The point and shoot offered its services while hiking in Glacier National Park. I didn't think these turned out too bad. :0)

This one even had a little visitor in it.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - Thanx to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

sooc #25 Scary-cool!

I was surprised at how narrow the road (Going to the Sun Road - neat name too!) is going through Glacier National Park.  This is actually one of the wider places, lol.  There are a few tunnels, one lane, with traffic lights allowing one side through at a time.  Our first day there we had a gorgeous sky!

The next day, cloudy - was supposed to rain all day but we stayed dry most of the day.

I think it would be scary-cool to travel the road on a motorcycle!

But when we pulled over to take a peek I was more than a little nervous - look how close he parked me to the edge!  I was a little scared I would get dizzy and topple over, lol.

And it's a loooooong way down! Personally I loved that there weren't rails trapping us back, we were able to feel the thrill - but I was surprised at the lack of rails.

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Columbian Ground Squirrel

My what big eyes you have. :0)

Unfortunately, this is as close as I got to the Columbian Ground Squirrel while in Glacier National Park.

Buh Bye! Was nice meeting you!

Obviously he wasn't too traumatized by my stalking - he went right to eating.  But I decided to let him dine in peace.  We stumbled upon him after pausing at the waterfall, heading back to the car.

Views from the car

First time we've seen such a large sign for a geocache, lol. One side read, "Stop at. . .", the other side read, "Thanks for stopping at. . ."

Shortly after the cache we made it to the entrance of Glacier National Park. Snapped a quick shot with the point and shoot and kept snapping while we drove the road in the park, checking out places we might want to stop and walk the next day.

We still had to find a campsite and stuff for dinner etc so we had limited time to explore when we got there.  But it worked out well checking things out via car.  It was great listening to the owls above us while we sat by our fire in the dark and watching the bats flitting around overhead. Very nice night!

Falling Water in Glacier National Park