Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#453

It's 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning and I'm in a rush to get ready for a wonderful day in the mountains. As usual, I upload my photos before heading out, knowing that I won't feel like doing it when I get back home after a very long day. Two out of the three photos failed to upload, so here is my only photo for today : ) No time to find and edit two other replacement shots. Interesting, I just noticed that it was set so that only I can see this photo. No idea how that got changed - I never, ever change that setting. This Northern Hawk Owlet, with the piercing eyes, was the cutest little thing. We were so privileged to be able to watch this family of three on a number of occasions. This particular day, 28 May 2012, was the owlet's first day out of the nest and we watched as it climbed over the rough ground and on to fallen logs and eventually clawed and flapped its way up this short, very thin tree and perched on the curved top. Some time later, Mom flew in with a Meadow Vole for the hungry youngster. It always makes me smile when I see an owlet stand on straight legs like this, lol - it just needed a good stretch at that moment.

This afternoon, 27 August 2013, several of us went to Pearce Estates, along the Bow River in Calgary. This was the first time I had seen any of the devastation along the Bow, caused by the Alberta Flood of the Century in June. Masses of gravel and silt left behind and dried leaves and grasses plastered along fences, showing how high the water had reached at the peak of the flood - it would have been over our heads! One of the things that I was so happy to see there, on a tall grass species that no one has been able to identify the last few years, was a Ladybug - a Seven-spotted Ladybug, but a very pale orange. There were also some Ladybird larvae, which are such strange looking things, as you can see in my macro photo. www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/9616677686