Same location as yesterday's image, but a much wider view. Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, where hoodoos line both sides of the Milk River, now has a campground, trails, information panels, and a restored North West Mounted Police (precursor of the RCMP) outpost. It has long been considered a sacred place by the Blackfoot, who made winter camp, buried their honoured dead, and left pictographs on the cliffs in this valley.
Once again the breeze is stirring those prairie grasses, although the effect isn't abstract as in the previous shot. Near the upper right, where the river forms a horseshoe bend, the camping area is nestled in among cottonwood groves. Across the river to the south are Montana's Sweetgrass Hills. Evening light.
Photographed in Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2007 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Note I: Flickr's map doesn't know where the international boundary is. This photo was taken and geotagged on the Canadian side of the border. I don't think there has been an invasion.
Note II: I shot this with one of Nikon's all-time worst lenses, long discontinued, an 18-135mm "DX", designed for the small sensor of the D200 and similar cameras. Eventually it escaped from me on a Vancouver Island beach and rolled into a tidepool. I was not upset; that was my excuse to buy something better.
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