"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." -Albert Einstein

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Beautiful Day on the Bitterroot (in photos)


Every day I walk out into the world
to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
Mary Oliver
 
The snow-heavy clouds moving in.
The sun started peaking through.
A very happy Eiger!
The trees are almost bare now.
Look closer...there's an 18 (or so) in. mountain whitefish down there.
An old magpie nest.
A snowflake catches the fleeing light of the sun.
There has been a beaver keeping busy nearby lately.
My boys enjoying the beautiful Bitterroot.
A red tailed hawk soars high overhead.
Simply beautiful.
Just the tops of the trees hold a few leaves...and the snow begins to fall.
After a swim.
A red-naped sapsucker...
...with a busy red-breasted nuthatch...
The nuthatch checking us out...and also traveling with...
...a flock of black-capped chickadees. They all surrounding us at the end of our walk. They move so fast that they're hard to get a good picture of, so this is the best I could do after about 15 minutes of sitting in the middle of the flock during their busy feeding time.

1 comment:

  1. Well captured, Ashley! Reminds me why I love this place so much. It's hard to believe that was just a few weeks, when I look out at the Winter Wonderland!

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