Thursday, September 28
almost vacation time
Today was the last day of my conference; tomorrow is a travel day. I was glad to attend the conference and meet with my counterparts from other national parks in Canada. We were so lucky to visit Waterton National Park for this conference; we were really lucky with the weather. We had a couple of outings and yesterday was just gorgeous.
This was on Upper Waterton Lake - the lake actually dips into Glacier National Park on the Montana side; very cool! Look how glass-calm the water was!
We visited the Bar U Ranch Historic Site which was totally amazing and entertaining and informative. We loved it! These were two of the Percheron horses the ranch uses in its work. [They were named Hawkeye and Trapper, but I'm not sure who was who. Whom.] The whole site visit was just fabulous!
At the interpretive centre they had this statue outside - it depicts a battle between the rancher George Lane and a pack of wolves. You can read more about it here. I tried to be all artsy-fartsy and get some of the setting sun, but the sun wasn't low enough to colour the sky the brilliant red and orange it became about an hour later.
So I should shut this off and get to bed. It's been a hectic (but fun) week and I'm looking forward to trying to sleep in a bit tomorrow. Oh, and the big fella and Sabrina joined me this evening, so everyone's happy again. (p.s. the dial-up in this hotel room is an earth shattering ... 24 kbps ... yawn)
And I forgot to mention that there has been some knitting - two pairs of socks on the go and yarn brought along for one more, so I might cast those on tomorrow in the car.
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