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Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberta. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Kananaskis wildflowers discovered in July 2007

I changed the format for these wildflowers. What do you think?

Wood Nymph, One-flowered Wintergreen
Moneses uniflora
Heath family




Wild Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
Lily family



White Camas
Zigadenus elegans
Lily family



Pink Pussytoes
Antennaria rosea
Aster family



Harebell
Campanula rotundifolia
Harebell family



Indian Paintbrush
Castilleja linariaefolia
Figwort family



Bog or Common Pink Wintergreen
Pyrola asarifolia
Wintergreen family



Twinflower
Linnaea borealis
Honeysuckle family



Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
Lily family



Canada Bunchberry
Cornus canadensis
Dogwood family



Common Fireweed
Epilobium augustifolium
Evening-primrose family



Tufted Vetch, Canada Pea
Vicia cracca
Pea family


Groundsel
Senecio spp
Sunflower family


Sunday, October 28, 2007

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park-October






Gerard came home from work on Thursday early and wanted to take a drive to one of our traditional haunts-Dry Island. It's a short 50 minute or so drive from home and well worth it. I was thinking most of the autumn colour would be past, and it was, but we and our little dog Hermes easily managed to enjoy ourselves regardless on a beautifully sunny afternoon.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Kananaskis Country-July 2007

We arrived at our Mt. Kidd campsite in the middle of a long heat wave. In the mountains the heat isn't such a problem though, as it gets nice and cool during the night-it was a good place for us to be.
Kananaskis was beautiful of course, the only negative thing was the thunder storm that chased us off the golf course on the 14th hole. That was a bummer-no rain check either, but they still gave us our little 25th anniversary ball markers for 'keeping the pace", which was nice.

This is a doe we shared the resort with:




Walks and Hikes:

Kananaskis Village Trail (not sure if it has another name) - Nice walk around the village and looks over the golf course towards the mountains.





Evan Thomas Trail to Wedge Pond Loop-nice walk, very pretty, not demanding.










Troll Falls-The falls was nice, and it's probably named for the cliff face which is very interesting and fun to climb around. Not my favorite hike though, as it followed access roads and cut lines and there was alot of visible man-mess.







King Creek log walk(unofficial name)-this one's fun-great for older kids. You just follow the creek into the canyon to a kind of dead end. There's no bridges, but you have to cross the creek several times, on logs or whatever. At the end there's the Native prayer ground (I think that's what it is-see the photos) at the top of a grassy cliff, if you're up to the climb. If anyone has any knowledge on these, and can point me to some official information online, please write me.







We went riding at Boundary Ranch. It was a beautiful 2 hour ridge ride with quite steep inclines inches from the ridge in places, and the trail was very rocky. It was slow but with the rough terrain and beautiful scenery I wasn't bored.



Sunday, July 8, 2007

Some new wildflowers just finished...

Clematis occidentalis


Allium cernuum


Monotropa uniflora


Aster canescens


Cypripedium calceolus


Aralia nudicaulis


Maianthemum canadense


Ledum groenlandicum


You can see by the dates on these that I took a while to get them id'd and done up, but they're coming along now. There're quite a few more, however. Some of you probably remember me finding some of these flowers while we were vacationing together. Others were taken while Gerard and I were on some of our weekend adventures.