Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: lichen-covered

I am doing a superb job of bombarding everyone with photos - sorry! My main aim is to work on and finish all the photos from my trip mid-March to Trinidad & Tobago. However, I am getting the odd day when I go out and needless to say, I take photos, even though I really don't need/want any more to look through and edit, ha. This photo is from the day before yesterday, 28 April 2017, when I spent the day with my daughter. She was not up to a long day's drive, so we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast and a wander round their grounds. I always love to see and photograph their Artichokes and Sunflowers, at any season. Afterwards, we called in at Spruce-it-Up Garden Centre, which neither of us had visited before. From there, I drove westwards as far as the Priddis area, where we had hoped to see a few birds. Not too much to be seen, though we did see a very welcome little Yellow-rumped Warbler, various hawks including this rather distant, Rough-legged Hawk perched on a lichen-covered fence, American Kestrels, and several Mountain Bluebirds. We had typical weather - a mix of sun, cloud, rain and even a few snowflurries, but at least it didn't rain heavily all day. Thanks for an enjoyable day, Rachel! Lovely to spend it with you. I have two back-to-back day trips coming up, so editing time will be very scarce. I have to get up in the middle of the night for the second trip (just after 2:00 am), or I may even stay up the whole night to make sure I don't oversleep. What we birders/photographers do for the chance of taking photos!

A photo at Plateau Mountain from my archives, taken on 31 July 2010. One of my favourite places to go to : ) I've added Plateau Mountain to my map, but the location is only very approximate, just to give an idea of where Plateau Mountain is, compared to Calgary. It's a long drive south of the city, on the very southern edge of Kananaskis. The rain waited that day until we were ready to go home and, thankfully, it wasn't a really hot day. www.albertaparks.ca/media/2741526/plateau_mtn_mgmt_plan.pdf

I don't know about "the hills are alive with the sound of music", but for sure "the hills are alive with the colour of lichen and wildflowers", ha! Just a photo of a large boulder from my fairly recent archives that I happened to come across, taken at Arethusa Cirque, off Highway 40, Kananaskis, on July 30th. Arethusa Cirque is immediately south of the better-known Ptarmigan Cirque, along Highway 40.