Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Arethusa Cirque trail

I'm not sure, but I think this is a Valerian species, just beginning to open its tiny buds. Whatever it is, I thought it was quite prettyo. Taken on a brutal hike on the Arethusa Cirque trail, in Kananaskis, on 30 July 2011. I remember that a lot of the trail was so steep that I didn't dare try and take any flower shots for fear of losing my balance on the exposed trail that overlooked such a steep, steep drop. After turning once to look at the view behind me, I decided that once was enough. Consequently, I came home with very few flower photos from that day. The view at the top was beautiful, of course, but I can no longer manage hikes like this. I love the mountains, but my body cries out for flatter trails. Still, I'm so thankful that I can get out at all!

I ended up with about three almost identical photos of this particular flower - these were the only photos of Glacier Lilies that came out on our day of botanizing at Arethusa Cirque on July 30th, ha. Val, I'm so glad you took a step and partly blocked the sun - obviously made the difference! Other common names include Yellow Avalanche Lily and Dogtooth Fawn Lily. Grows in subalpine mountain meadows, slopes, and clearings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythronium_grandiflorum Somehow, I can't find the list of 400+ items that I had added values to, ready to give to Customs when my 12 boxes arrive from England. I have searched and searched but just cannot find the file, so now, of course, I have had to start again from scratch!! Arghh!!!! This new list doesn't seem to have saved, either, but now I think I know what I'm doing "wrong". I opened a Word Document attached to a friend's e-mail, added all the guessed values and saved the document. Maybe you can't change and save a document attached to someone's e-mail? So, now I have saved the list to a document in Word. Really don't feel like doing this a third time!! My apologies to those of you who have asked me all sorts of questions and I just haven't got back to you! Also, of course, to all those of you who think that maybe I have dropped off the edge of the planet. I really am still here, just finding it difficult to cope with all the things that have to be seen to as soon as possible - I'm not doing a very good job of getting any of them done, especially during this busiest time of the year.