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Alberta Trip May 2005 - May 24

May 24 we began by exploring some more in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park.  After getting some early morning photos of the cottontails around the campsite, we followed the trail that leads to the petroglyphs for which the park is named.  I found the hoodoos endlessly fascinating and beautiful, and could have spent days among them with my camera.  Anna was keenly aware of being in rattlesnake country, but we didn't see any snakes at all.  The weather was very moody, with storms moving on the horizons all around us.  Very dark clouds settled over the Sweetgrass Hills.  But we stayed dry, and managed to get some nice photographs from the contrasting light of storms and sun around us.

In the afternoon we broke camp and headed to Dinosaur Provincial Park, near Brooks.  I had to stop a couple of times to take more photographs of the moods of the prairie sky.

 

Adult cottontail
near our campsite

Young cottontail -
about the size of a tea mug

 

Insect gall on wild rose

View of the Milk River
from near our campsite

and another...

and another.  Note the pair of
Canada geese... they were very
vocal when anyone came near
their island: probably nesting.

 

Anna climbing among
the hoodoos

Jim intent on a photograph -
or trying to keep from being
blown to Montana

 

 

 

 

Scarlet globe mallow,
Sphaeralcea coccinea

 

 

Late sun and rainbow on the
rock above our campsite
at Dinosaur Provincial Park

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