Something different for me



Through a Dirty Cafe Window

Gardiner, Montana

 Here's an image that's a little different for me. It's not my usual style or subject matter.

It was taken while sitting in a little cafe booth in Gardiner, Montana at the end of May last year. While it looks bright and green here, we were waiting for the snow to stop and the roads to be cleared in nearby Yellowstone National Park.

Just down the road less than a half-hour away, winter still had it's hold on the park, but the hope of spring was just starting to peek out.

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Someplace warm to think about



The Mittens at Monument Valley



It's been a real warm Winter so far, but they say we're going to get about a foot of snow tonight.

I just needed a warm, sunny place to go.

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A goal

One of my favorite hikes I've taken was to Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park. It's a medium length day hike, about 6 miles if I remember right, that leads off into the wilderness along trails lined with beargrass and crossing streams along it's way.

Iceberg Lake

Glacier National Park

Sloan, my daughter, did this hike with me along with a couple of others on a trip there in 2008, and it will be one of the things I always will cherish when I think of her. Time we spent together.

 I've been thinking of that trip a lot this past week or so, and it's giving me an itch to get back there. I have a lot of good memories from there and want to see more places in the park, do some things I couldn't do before, and re-visit some of the old memories. You know of my history of "second chances" if you've been reading along. I think I would like another one of those at this place.

Not this year. I need to do some things to get ready for Glacier. Last year I set some goals for my phototography. This year I need to set some goals for myself. Glacier will just be the carrot at the end of the stick.

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An odd thing to think about




 
Here's the small town of Waterton in Alberta, Canada that's part of the twin national parks I mentioned in the last post. It's a simply beautiful little town in an amazing location, but there's only one thing I can think of when I look at this image.

We spent just a few hours in town doing a little shopping and then having dinner but then things went bad. Looking for something to do after the sun went down, we spent a long night watching a terrible movie.


The national park lodges that we stay in on some of our trips, as we did on this one, don't have televisions and I hate to admit it, but it's surprising what you'll do for entertainment when you've spent the last two weeks going "cold turkey" without it.

Thanks to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", I'll forever have it in my head when I think of the little story-book town of Waterton.

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Remember when...

Prince of Wales Hotel

Waterton National Park

Alberta, Canada

I spent the New Year's holiday weekend, between football and being lazy, looking through old images while putting some together for a project I'm working on. It's interesting to relive past trips through past images.

Today I went through a trip we took to the shared national park called Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in Montana and Alberta.

I hadn't thought about that trip for a while and it was nice to go back to it today.

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