Quilting and other Things

Went to see the Calgary Zoo. It was very hot. Many of the animals were more sensible than the people and stayed under shelter or in their huts. Reticulated Giraffe from Western Africa and are an endangered species. They eat 16 - 20 hours a day and upto 140 lbs Slender-Tailed Meerkat from Southern Africa. They stand up like this to watch for predators From one of the greenhouses. Crocodile Monitor Lizard from Papua New Guinea. They can grow up to 13 feet and weigh as much as 200 lbs Grevy's Zebras. They are from Africa and on the endangered species list Inland Bearded Dragon from from central Australia. They like bugs, flowers and fruit to eat. I forgot to take a picture of his sign! African Blue-Bellied Rollers. This is a male. This display had just male birds that were waiting to be sent to another zoo. Chilean Flamingos are a species at risk. The pink colour comes from the red carotenoids in the algae they eat. There were four elephants. This is one of the three...

In May when I went to Lake Louise it was still mostly frozen. So I went back to see Lake Louise in July. (May photos are half way down this posting) Road side pull over just past the entrance to the Bow Valley parkway. I skipped the parkway this time to get to Lake Louise quicker. A panaroma view at the second pull over The first few flowers were in the garden at the Fairmont hotel at Lake Louise. The others are wild flowers growing in the area. I followed a walk around the edge of the lake. The lake is 70 meters deep and warms up to 10C (50F). The colour of the lake is from the rock flour (finely ground rock dust from the glacier) that comes into the lake with the glacier melt. As more melt comes into the lake, the colour turns from a blue to green. Later in the summer as the flour settles to the bottom of the lake, the colour turns back again. There wasn't time to go the whole way as I was due in Banff at 6:10 for a wilderness tour. The tour was interesting -...

The yahoo group from the photoelements class has some instructions for creating out of bounds photos. They are the same as the instructions here which also has examples of what an out-of-bounds photo is. I took two of the dinosaur photos from the Royal Tyrell museum and out of bounds photos to try the technique. Eryops - a large carnivorous amphibian

This trip I stayed at a hotel closer to the office and this was the view from my window: On Saturday I had a very fun day but it was almost 11:30 when I finally got back to my hotel room. I had a nice big breakfast from the buffet here before I left. I wasn't hungry again until dinner time. Along the way yesterday I saw lots of Elk, a black bear, some chipmunks, maybe a deer but she was shy and ran back into the bush when I slowed to peak at her and lots of birds including a raven. I went up to Lake Louise along the Bow Valley Parkway which is a very scenic route -- lots of places to stop. The alternate is via the Transcanada which is faster but not as many places to admire. Bow Valley Parkway actually has travel restrictions from 6pm to 9am at this time of year on the bottom 18 km to "protect wildlife at this critical time of year" It starts March 1 and goes almost till the end of June. The first long stop was at Johnston Canyon. There are three hikes here -- ...