Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Sorry, I forgot these. Maybe I will never stop posting. We'll just have to wait and see.




Sunday, August 9, 2015



So this is the last posting for our 2015 trip up the Eastern Slope of the Rockies. It was a wonderful trip. We took over 5000 pictures – over 30 gigs total – and we still keep forgetting some of the details. We did this blog to help us share the trip with friends, but I think it will also serve to help us remember. I think we’ve posted about 160 pictures here.

Mike with wings – Rocky Mountain National Park

Rolling countryside south of Buffalo, Wyoming

Cassin’s Finch – Favorite bird of the trip

Female Mountain Blue Bird – Second favorite bird of the trip

Us in the snow

Walking in the Absaroka Mountains, Shoshone National Forest

Running Eagle Falls – Glacier National Park (yes that is a river coming out of the rock)

Dennis on the trail somewhere

Sunrise at St Mary Campground, Glacier National Park

Mike taking pictures of a Loon on Bow Lake in Banff National Park

Mike in the Snow


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Thanks, and hope you have enjoyed this too,
Dennis and Mike


One of the most unusual characteristics of this trip was that we followed Spring most of the way North. We saw Indian Paint Brushes (of more colors than we believed) almost everywhere on our way North. On our way back, Spring was over and we just got warmer and then hot.

But anyway, here are some pictures of the wild variety of flowers we saw – most of which we did not identify. 














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