Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#282

Not sure what just happened with Flickr , but when I tried to start uploading today's images, it froze my computer. Somehow, the photos still appeared. Very strange - never had that happen before. I was relieved to see that there is no problem with the sidebar so far today, for me. Parts of yesterday, some of us had a plain black sidebar, so could do nothing, either on our own photostream or certain other people's. Gee, I wonder what will go wrong here today. Took this vibrant photo when wandering round the gardens at the Calgary Zoo on 25 September 2012. Thank you, archives, yet again : ) Hope to have a few new photos to post very soon. It's 0C right now, but it's supposed to soar to a balmy 13C this afternoon., which will feel SO good.

This was quite a strange cloud, but beautiful, stretching out across the Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary on 5 November 2012. You can just make out the distant mountain peaks.

On day three of my wonderful week's trip down to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park with special friends from England, Linda and Tony (explanation is in my "US holiday, September 2012" set), we visited Midway Geyser Basin, along the Firehole River. Photographed on 13 September, Yellowstone. Grand Prismatic Spring, Excelsior Geyser Crater and Turquoise Pool are also at this Basin. "Opal Pool is a hot spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Opal Pool usually has a temperature of approximately 132 °F (56 °C). Though usually active as a hot spring, Opal Pool is considered a fountain-type geyser. The first recorded eruption of Opal Pool was in 1947, recurring in 1949, 1952 and 1953, then ceasing. Eruptions resumed in 1979, happening at least once in most following years. Eruption heights are typically under 30 feet (9.1 m) in height, but some eruptions have been seen with heights of 70 feet (21 m) to 80 feet (24 m). Eruptions occur suddenly following visible convection in the pool, but are unpredictable. The eruption consists of one, huge, burst that throws water 20-80 feet high, making Opal Pool the largest active geyser at Midway Geyser Basin. Much smaller splashes seconds apart stretch the total duration to about 1 minute. Sometime in 2005 Opal completely drained, but it refilled as a beautiful green pool in 2008." From Wikipedia. www.everytrail.com/guide/midway-geyser-basin-yellowstone-...

I'm adding information that I added under the first bear photo I posted, yesterday - this will save me using my left arm and shoulder any more than necessary. May 12th was a wonderful (17 hour!) day of scenery and bears, thanks to good friends Cathy and Terry, who so kindly invited me along with them! We even spent some of the time in B.C. (British Columbia), the next province to our west, and were so lucky to see six bears in total. Our first Bear was a Black Bear that looked rather like a huge rock in the distance. The second sighting was this adult Cinnamon Bear, after which we saw an adult Black Bear. The final sighting was a beautiful family of Mum with her two cubs. One of these little ones was a black Black Bear and the other a Cinnamon Black Bear, which you don't see very often. None of the Bears approached cars, hoping for food. They quietly went about their feeding, for the most part without even lifting their eyes from the ground. The usual "thoughtless" people were there, too, getting out of their cars and approaching, so that they could get closer photos. Of course, the cubs were so cute, but all these Bears are wild and wildlife tends to be unpredictable. You really would think that people could keep this in mind and not approach, but stay safely in their cars - and give the animals plenty of space and respect. The weather was so good that day, but the sun was very harsh and played havoc with my images. However, I will pick out a few of the "better" ones and eventually post them. Thanks SO much, Cathy and Terry, for such an amazing day out - it was so much fun, and I can't thank you enough for giving me the chance to see (and photograph) these wild animals that were so busy going about their lives. Perhaps I should add that I used full zoom (32x) for my photos, lol!!! I didn't crop this particular image very much, mainly just cutting off the sides - the bear did take a close look at us briefly when it passed our car while eating grass and roots - but I will be cropping some of the others. Another thing I'll add is that I only remember ever seeing one Bear and that must have been 30 or 32 years ago!

I'm posting early, as there is a chance that I will be out this evening. Today is another cold, snowy day and my car is going to need clearing of snow before I can go anywhere. The roads are supposed to be even worse than yesterday (though I stayed home). There were around 200 traffic accidents yesterday in the city. Unfortunately, I don't have the option of staying home, safe and warm, today. Drive safely, everyone! I liked the pattern on the stalk of this mushroom, found in Bragg Creek Provincial Park or West Bragg Creek Natural Area on 20th August. Just got home from a volunteer shift and found that there was not a single comment on this photo or the one below it. I uploaded my pics early today, maybe 7 or 8 hours ago, so this is really, really weird. Never happened before. I did just lighten and replace this mushroom image and the mushroom one below, thinking they were rather dark, but I would have thought that one of my Flickr friends would have commented " Hey, this is much too dark" or something similar, LOL. Anyone else having something similar happening?