Mike Drew: Nothing dead about dead-end road in Sheep River valley yyc
Cattle on the move west of Turner Valley, Ab., on Monday, June 19, 2023.It wasn’t strong yet but when the breeze comes from the west you know it won’t be long until it is. So before it really started to howl, I dropped down from the ridge and caught up with the cattle.
Geranium leaves often have a bit of colour, no matter what the season, west of Turner Valley, Ab., on Monday, June 19, 2023.The pastures were full of flowers, flashes of colour in the tall grass that was now starting to sway in the wind. The forested sections were carpeted with soft green horsetails and patches of cow parsnip. Farther west, the boggy areas and spring seeps were lush from all the recent rain.
I’d seen plenty of cool little things when I had come up behind the cattle drive earlier so now that it was past, I headed back to where I’d first seen the cattle on the move. And found plenty of shelter from the wind. A hundred metres up the road, there was a stand of spruce trees on the edge of a meadow. And as I drove slowly along, right from my driver’s seat, I could see tiny wintergreen blossoms, and clumps of white anemones. There were patches of roses, a lot of the blossoms fading but some fresh buds as well. And in the flowers that were still intact, bumblebees and metallic green beetles rooted around.
Blanket flower and bugs in the Sheep River valley west of Turner Valley, Ab., on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.At the far end of the meadow where the forest pinches in, there were bright yellow and red paintbrush on one side and wood lilies on the other. Lichens hung from the trees and squirrels nattered away. The creek bottom a couple of turns further on was mossy and green. It was a bit early for blossoms there but a few little violets were starting to bloom. One of them housed a tiny crab spider.
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