Rocky Mountain wildlife - Bighorn sheep and Black Bear

On my way home from BC, I was driving along towards Golden when I saw a bunch of people in a tiny parking lot off the highway...and this is why...These Bighorn Sheep are so used to people that they had no reason to move. I strategically faced them with my car, as I know my dogs would have barked if they had seen them, and that might have upset the animals (and made the tourists mad). About 30 minutes later, I saw a truck on the side of the road and so slowed down again - he was photographing this Black Bear on the railway tracks. I sidled along my car, and took this photo. He was closer than it looks and bears can move really fast. Mind you this one was licking salt, I believe.

Log boom on Shuswap Lake, Salmon Arm, BC

On my way to Vancouver last weekend, I stopped and took this photo of a log boom on Shuswap Lake, just on the outskirts of Salmon Arm BC. What a beautiful area! The shape of the hill in behind reminds me of Mt. McKay in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Except that Mt. McKay is usually photographed from the city-scape and not from the water. Here it is below, from the website http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_McKay_Thunder_Bay.JPG Boy, this photo below makes me homesick!

Alberta Skies on Canada Day

Fenceline at sunset, east of CalgaryLate afternoon on Canada Day, July 1, I could not stop taking pictures of the sky! It goes on forever here.

Black sky to the south above and below, a farm under a rainbow...Below, the sun lights up Calgary's downtown building on the horizon.
Sky looking west towards the mountains below...
Going north, the sky was clear! That was the way home.