Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Bow Glacier Falls

I used a special effect on my camera to take this photo of the friend with whom I went to the Rocky Mountains, on 29 August 2013. Just a spur of the moment thing, but it makes a different kind of shot, for fun. Taken at Bow Lake, along the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

On 10 August 2013, I went with friend Sandy to Bow Lake, in Banff National Park. It is located along Highway 93, the Icefields Parkway, said to be the most beautiful, scenic highway in the world. She had seen a tiny Liverwort (non-vascular plant) maybe a week earlier on a different trip and wanted to go back to check it at a later stage, and asked if I'd like to go with her. How lucky I am! She had hoped that it might be a particular rare species, but as it turned out, it wasn't. Still an interesting species to add to the list of flora and fauna for the area. Just before turning off into the parking lot for Bow Lake, we had stopped to look over the lake and to view the Crowfoot Glacier. It's located 32 km (20 mi) northwest of Lake Louise. After that, we walked very slowly along the Bow Glacier Trail, which runs along the right hand edge of Bow Lake, but didn't continue as far as the Falls. You can just make out the Falls below the glacier in the far distance. I had only ever once been to Bow Lake and that was 30+ years ago, but I had always longed to go back. This lake is the source of the Bow River, which is the main river that runs through Calgary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Lake_ (Alberta) www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/9598236793

Another photo from a wonderful day along the Icefields Parkway (Highway 93) west of Banff and Lake Louise, on 10 August 2013. Our destination was beautiful Bow Lake, so that my friend could check on a Liverwort (non-vascular plant) that she had seen there recently. The title for this image comes from the colourful plant in the foreground, called River Beauty. There were a few people out taking photos in this area, so it was a bit of a challenge to try and photograph in between them : ) "Chamerion latifolium (formerly Epilobium latifolium) is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the English common names Dwarf Fireweed and River Beauty Willowherb. It has a circumboreal distribution, appearing throughout the northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including subarctic and Arctic areas such as snowmelt-flooded gravel bars and talus, in a wide range of elevations. This arctic plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber. Every part of this plant is edible, tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty. It is the national flower of Greenland, where it is known by the Greenlandic name niviarsiaq, which means "little girl"." From Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamerion_latifolium www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/9524200370