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This is such a beautiful place...I haven't really tried taking any pics of Flathead Lake...it's so huge that I can't really photograph it! Glacier Park may be fantastic...but Flathead Lake and the Mission Mountains is....Wowsa!!!! That is Polson Montana in the left upper corner...I lived there for about 30 bittersweet years! This is definitely the area for photographs and when I lived here I hardly took any of the area...it was all of my kids and day to day life....I couldn't appreciate the beauty here until after I'd left...weird huh? lol
Well, my mushroom was eaten up so i had to look for a new one :) Found this guy near my first. Cheese! I have this shot in different arpertures (from 1.4 to 4) but wide open is my favorite. Minolta MD 50/1.4
Empty grain rolls up the Hi-line just east of West Glacier, Montana, late in the day. The train is running on approaches, and will slide in the next siding. He will roll around two westbounds, and sneak in behind the second for Amtrak 7 who is running behind today. The grain would make it in, and Amtrak wouldn't have to stop at all while he continued to gain time westbound towards Belton and Whitefish. This was a random pull-off and short people wouldn't be able to shoot this. I was standing as tall as I could on the edge of the drop off.
As you can see, lots of smoke! The worst day for photos we could have picked....most of the day was zero visibility. The highway we always take was closed due to a severe fires....so the west shore is what we had to use and the views were undesirable!!! Got acouple pics the entire trip....but had a great time with Sam's sisters and family...so all is well!!!
I forgot to tell ya...it started raining yesterday afternoon and is still raining!! I sat out in it for awhile watching hummies...everything is so green and revived!!!!! Nature is happy for the moment! ❤
Now wouldn't this be a fine place to spend the day with a kayak and some booze watching them roll by! Day Gas is nearing Dixon on the way east as they hug the banks of the Flathead River.
Headed out to Turimetta Beach with the Focus Flickr Group www.flickr.com/groups/northernbeachesnsw/ this morning about 15 of us and first light brought out some nice colours. Followed by an amazing breakfast at Driftwood at Narrabeen - Great to catch with some new faces this morning.
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This is a scene taken along Hwy 200 going towards Thompson Falls. Lots of fishing goes on along this river....some very beautiful spots! There are some rapids somewhere along here close where a lot of folks raft....fun in the sun!! :) Now I'm not a sissy by any means, but when I walked over to the river bank...I was greeted by a somewhat large snake!!! Yikes!
Large view is very nice....
Would love to go back here today but can't fit this trip in this weekend! back! I'll be back! :)
L is very nice! Be safe eveyone...have a great weekend!
Lake Co., Montana
This past weekend we hosted a symposium on evolutionary genomics of adaptation at the Flathead lake biological station. While I didn't have too much time for exploration, I was able to sneak away during a social one evening and grab a shot or two.
Built as Norfolk Southern SD60 6605 in 1986, SD60E rebuild 6972 curves east onto the New York Central alignment at CP 506, leaving the Pennsylvania Railroad behind.
The flat-fronted EMD rebuilds are something to look out for in a sea of General Electric motors as variety is a commodity not found in abundance nowadays.
I found this waste high plant when I was walking through the brush to the lake...at first it was closed.....but when I was heading back up to the car it had opened...anyone know what it is? lol :)
I grew up in Polson, Montana which sits along Flathead Lake...so this is kinda like home!!! :)
Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake by surface area that is west of the Mississippi River in the contiguous United States, if one takes Red Lake and Lake of the Woods to be north of the Mississippi River, rather than west of the river.
With a surface area of between 191.5 sq mi and 197 sq mi, Flathead Lake is slightly larger in surface area than Lake Tahoe, but it is much smaller in volume.
The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial. Flathead Lake is 27.3 mi (43.9 km) long and up to 15.5 mi (24.9 km) wide. Flathead Lake has a maximum depth of 370.7 ft (113.0 m), and an average of 164.7 ft (50.2 m). This makes Flathead Lake deeper than the average depths of the Yellow Sea or the Persian Gulf. Polson Bay, at the lake's outlet, was raised 10 ft (3.0 m) by Kerr Dam. It is one of the cleanest lakes in the populated world for its size and type.