nzane productions » flowers http://www.nzaneproductions.com words and pictures Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bluestone http://www.nzaneproductions.com/2008/08/18/bluestone/ http://www.nzaneproductions.com/2008/08/18/bluestone/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:07:36 +0000 zcole http://www.nzaneproductions.com/blog/?p=228 the last couple of days were much better in yellowstone – so much better that it seemed like everything was a vivid blue. the sky was clear, the animals were out, the dogs were barking – wait – shhhhhhh – no bark! ;-)



We stayed at the Indian Creek Campground. These are from one of the creeks that flow into Gardner River.

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Henry’s Lake with Izze in the Foreground
Click on the picture above for a closer look. (and see if you can find what I think is a ready-made golf course)


Or you could drive up. I didn’t have a car and didn’t want to drive the motorhome up since I had no idea what the road was like.

I took my dogs with me, which happens to be the longest trip for them. 20 miles total! They did really good, although I think they might be mad at me.

Dogs With Sawtell Peak in background

When we got to the top, we all laid down and took a nap. Izze of course wanted to have her belly rubbed too. So demanding!

Izze at top of Sawtell

This was my highest climb in a mountain bike yet at 3500′. So we took our time and took pictures and Izze chased some squirrels along the way. This photo is at the moment the squirrel and Izze saw each other. In the next moment, both were running and scurrying as fast as they could.

Squirrel on a log.

There weren’t any roses, but there were plenty of wildflowers!

Purple Flowers

I’m heading into Yellowstone today, so probably no updates for a week or so. Until next time!

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Sun Flowers near Sun Valley

The clouds were spectacular yesterday. North of where I camped there were many thunderheads rolling through and at night I could see the lightning light up the sky. Below is the photograph I had stopped to take. It’s a panoramic stitched photograph of 10 separate photos. The photo is of the Sawtooth Range, specifically the range surrounding Sheep Point and Smoky Dome (the taller mountains in the distance). Afterwards I took my dogs and rode down the gravel road on my bike. Well low and behold I found sunflowers!

Sawtooth Range
Click on the picture above for a closer look.

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