Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: P1030911 FZ18

A friend had very generously invited me to go along with him two days ago, exploring the area south of the city, in the Porcupine Hills, Foothills and Nanton area. The weather was incredible and the scenery breath-taking! Everything from flat grassland, to rolling hills and the Foothills, to the eastern edge of the mountains. You can see the very eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in this photo. At the foot of this slope, the rolling Foothills begin. This particular road, Kananaskis Road, was very interesting.

When I called in at the Calgary Zoo this afternoon, I discovered that all the Poinsettias in the Butterfy House had been replaced with spring flowers. What an amazing display they have created to cheer us up during the winter days. This photo shows just one small area, but there are other types of flowers there, too.

A friend had very generously invited me to go along with him today, exploring the area south of the city, in the Porcupine Hills, Foothills and Nanton area. The weather was incredible and the scenery breath-taking! Everything from flat grassland, to rolling hills and the Foothills, to the eastern edge of the mountains. You can see where the Foothills meet the mountains in this photo. This particular road was very interesting. And "they" said this was going to be the most severe winter in 15 years! As you can see in this photo, it doesn't look like winter at all in the rolling hills. (Snow next week?). We saw: 2 Golden Eagles 50 Wild Turkeys, approx. 1 Northern Shrike 4 American Dippers Eurasian Collared Doves, several Snow Buntings, 1 flock 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Rough-legged Hawk 2 Gray Jays Rock Doves (Pigeons) Common Raven, many Chickadees Downy Woodpecker 1 White-breasted Nuthatch Magpies, plenty House Sparrows Mule Deer White-tailed Deer 1 Moose 1 Coyote