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| Meltwater below Sperry Glacier, early Sept |
So - the short version of the moment is that summer was beautiful and busy...
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| Tarn at Logan Pass, late August |
and then fall hit and everything decreased. Work. Drivable miles of road in Glacier. Temperature. Sunlight. Wildflowers in bloom. Desire to be colder than necessary (aka going outside).
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| Tarn at Logan Pass, late August. |
I'm struggling with trying to figure out how to motivate for the winter.
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| Mountain goat enjoying the view at the Hidden Lake Overlook, mid-July. |
And then Glacier National Park's
facebook page (which I love) does a photo contest. The "prize" is having your photo used as their profile picture for a month. They did this back in May and it turned into a bit of a free-for-all.
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| Tarn at Logan Pass, mid-July |
The theme was "Spring". Some particularly excitable fans submitted over a dozen photos and I'd say 60% of the photos were clearly from high-summer, and another 15% from fall. Whatever - spring means different things to different people (and we'll disregard that what makes Glacier such a wonderful and special place is exemplified by the differences between Spring in Glacier, and Spring anywhere else, but again, whatever), but considering Glacier probably gets 90% of it's unique visitors during a 75 day window in late June, July, August and early September, that's about what you'd expect.
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| Paintbrush, Mary Baker Lake, and Sperry Glacier, early Sept |
This time the theme was "Water: non-frozen" which I think is excellent.
Also - one photo limit per Facebook profile. As you'd suppose, most
photos are of Lakes McDonald or St. Mary.
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| Along Running Eagle Creek, late July |
I decided I'd find my most favoritest photo of Water in Glacier and submit it.
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| Two Medicine, late July |
Harder said than done.
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| Two Medicine, late August |
To start with, until late July D and I were using the same camera. Sometimes we would pass it back and forth on a trip, depending on who was in the mood to photo. Now we have two cameras, but they're the exact same camera, and we both download the photos to D's computer, so when viewing photos in the typical iPhoto format (chronologically) our photos from the same trip intergrade.
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| Lake McDonald, late August |
And while some photos are clearly mine, or clearly D's (we do have different sensibilities) some are up for grabs.
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| Gooseberry blossoms along McDonald Creek, June. |
So I looked through the "Last 12 Months" section of iPhoto and pulled to the desktop my favorite water pictures. One of them I'm 80% certain that D took (but I was there...), but the rest I'm sure are mine.
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| Hidden Lake, early Sept. The reason I'm pretty sure D took this picture is because below is a picture of me taking of picture of D taking the above picture. I think. |
When I got done sorting through iPhoto I had 14 of my favoritest photos of Water in Glacier from this year. I've added one more (the contest forbid photos in which a person could be recognized) and that is this blog post. The first photo is the one I posted to their wall. You can go to their Facebook page to
see all the submissions.
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| Along McDonald Creek, early June. |
Looking through a year's worth of Glacier adventures is a pretty good
way to psych myself up for getting out there this winter. For some
reason, looking at all the things I've done makes me think of all the
things I have yet to do.
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| D near the Apgar Fire Lookout, viewing Lake McDonald, ~May. The Mt. Brown Fire Lookout was on my list last winter/spring but never happened; it sits across the lake. |
