Reward

I had to work the last 7 days on the overnight shift.  Needless to say, it was a very stressful week.  This morning I was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise.

Snuggled In

Since the weather has gotten cooler, our dog James has discovered the awesomeness of snuggling up under a blanket.

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Red Tail Hawk

One rainy day last week, I happened to catch sight of a red tail hawk catching food at the end of our driveway. 

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Searching

The weather has been getting colder so the squirrels have been extra busy trying to find food.  They take advantage and stock up on acorns while the dogs are in the house.

Lola and James were watching them very closely.

Pictures while sitting in a tree

Last Saturday was the opening weekend of rifle deer season.  My husband goes every year and thankfully filled his two tags on the first day.  However, while waiting for the deer to make their appearance he took a couple of pictures.

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Hiking the Athabasca Glacier

On our last full day in Canada, Glen and I scheduled a hike on the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park.

When we got there it was blowing snow and visibility was pretty poor.

However, by the time everyone in our group geared up the snow had stopped and the sun had come out.  We had to hike up to the glacier, which was the hardest part because it was so rocky.

This is the view once we got onto the glacier.

Our guide dug down and handed all of us some of the glacial ice.  This ice is 200 plus years old.  Pretty amazing to think about.

Our guide graciously took our picture 🙂

Here you can see more snow moving in. It was pretty much at this time the guide thought it would be a good idea to start heading back down.

We hiked most of the way back down the glacier next to a shallow crevasse.  You can also see it had started to snow.

We got to look down into a glacial hole, one at a time, while holding our guides hand to make sure we didn’t fall in.

At this point it was snowing pretty hard and the wind was blowing gale force.  We had to shield our faces because the snow was hitting us and stinging our skin.

The snow sure made the view pretty on the drive back to Canmore.

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Bow Lake

The same day that Glen and I went to Peyto lake we also hiked around Bow Lake.  It was a blustery cold day and I ended up getting windburned.  The lake was very beautiful and has a trail that takes you to a waterfall.

Here we are on the trail to the waterfall.

Of course there were plenty of cute ground squirrels to take pictures of.

This one had mud all over its face.  Made me wonder what in the world it was up to.

Selfie of me and Glen with Bow Lake as a backdrop.

Lake Louise

On Sunday we went to Lake Louise in Banff National Park.  It really was gorgeous!

There were a ton of tourists there even though the weather was on the verge of being ugly.  It rained ninety percent of the day.

This is the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.  Looks very grand doesn’t it?

Titmouse

Patience paid off. I finally got some good shots of the little gray tufted titmouse last week.

Winter Plumage

A female goldfinch visited our bird feeder recently. They aren’t as pretty in winter…however, spring is just around the corner.