Thursday, November 23, 2023

Giving thanks - a few summer photos

Summer salads.  Chilled white wine on the deck.  A rainbow of garden flowers, bejeweled with equally bonny butterflies.  Smothered hot dogs at the ball park.  Fascinating wildlife. Back-country camping and mountain grandeur.  Just a few photos from July; numerous reasons to be thankful!  Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

 



Today I am linking to LeeAnna's Not Afraid of Color for I Like Thursday  The prompt for this week is unexpected events at holidays - a funny story about Thanksgiving.  I have racked my brain and not come up with a thing.  I guess that puts us in the boring category!  So, instead, I am showing you this glorious brat and margarita I had at the ballpark this summer!

Our first back-country trip of the summer was in Waterton Peace Park, just over the border from Montana.  We stayed a night in Waterton before and after our trip.  It is a wonderfully quaint town, and we'll be going back!


 



Waterton has many beautiful sights that you can see without going into the back-country, such as the picture to the left.  The mountain in the distance is actually in Montana!!!!

 

 

 

 

We closed out our visit to Waterton with a meal at the Chop House - delectable food and outstanding service!

Back at home, I was entertained by this enormous toad in my garden, and a Great Blue Heron caught on my trail camera down by the lake.  It will be a while before I am seeing either one of them again!


Linking to Thankful Thursday

Linking to Mosaic Monday

26 comments:

  1. ...Angie, thanks for sharing these fabulous sights. I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

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  2. Angie, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Love the toad that showed up. It's a beauty! With many lovely natural wonders all around, health, great food, family and friends you are truly living a life brimming with blessings. :)

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  3. You always have such lovely sights. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  4. Lovely photographs Angie, thank you.
    Happy Thanksgiving wishes to you and yous.

    All the best Jan

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  5. Everything sure is pretty. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us!

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  6. Happy Thanksgiving! You've found some beautiful places there in your neck of the woods. That summer salad looks delicious. That toad looks like he's ready to go underground for the winter!

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  7. Happy Thanksgiving! Beautiful photos, the flowers are lovely, great capture of the butterfly.. Your huge toad is cute. I've been to Waterton, the views are gorgeous. Take care, have a great day and happy weekend.

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  8. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  9. What beautiful photos as always, Angie. I enjoy so much seeing your surroundings through your lens. Delicious food and a great time! Life doesn't get much better!

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  10. Love “Bonny butterllflies”

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  11. Hi Angie -- Your garden looked like wildflower heaven this summer! so pretty! We also visited Waterton, Canada, when we visited Glacier NP a few years ago--it was beautiful! We took a lake cruise and did some hiking. I blogged about it back then. On my blog this week i have a connection to Montana and Waterford, Ireland. If you have been to Helena you've seen it!

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  12. ah summer - we are just coming into it here in Western Australia and it has hit us with a bang! It is going to be a hot dry summer with a great risk of bushfires. Enjoy your cooler months. You summer looked wonderful!

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  13. Love the pictures Angie and of course your flower garden is one of my favorite spots :-)

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  14. Beautiful photos Angie, the food looks SO very delicious!

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  15. Beautiful photos, Angie. I would like to visit Waterton one day. I've heard so much about it, and your images just inspire me even more. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

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  16. Beautiful photos! Mountain Lake is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

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  17. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you. Thanks for transporting us back to your beautiful adventures in the summer!

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  18. Oh, it was fantastic! I enjoyed reading. Happy MosaicMonday

    Thank you so much being part at
    MosaicMonday

    Have a fine week. Greetings by Heidrun

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  19. You've had some wonderful times this Fall! Love seeing where you've been and catch up with your news! Sweet hugs, Diane

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  20. beautiful nature.... love flowers and critters...and salad.
    Happy "late" thanksgiving to you and your

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  21. Wonderful photos of nature in all of summer's display. You know I love flowers but the mountains and greenery is so special. Thank you.

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  22. Hi Angie. Well I of course know that everything in the US is bigger and better. You jst proved it with the toad. Even the Great Blue looks looks oversized from that angle.

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  23. Wow, the toad really looks huge, dear Angie :-DD And with this Great Blue heron you can see the relationship with dinosaurs extremely well by the eyes. (I've never noticed this so much with other birds.)
    Your pictures really seem like there's a lot of reason for gratitude and joy - beautiful landscapes and summer experiences. I can imagine that your surroundings will have turned white by now too? In any case, we have had snowfall here several times, then the snow disappeared several times, but at the moment it is staying because it is very cold. So your flower-butterfly-sunshine photos are like a warm blanket for me :-)!
    Enjoy the pre-Christmas season!
    Hugs and all the best from Austria, Traude
    🥁🧸🍸🕯️☕🧸🍸☕🕯️🧸🥁

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  24. Such beautiful landscapes it looks such an amazing place xxx

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