On Monday, July 30, our friends, Kelly & Enrico, who had graced us with their visit, headed back to North Dakota via the Beartooth Hwy, Red Lodge, and Billings. We had gone on a wonderful hike along the Cache Creek Trail the day before they left.
They dropped me off at the Billings International Airport. My mom had recently fallen and I needed to return to Hayward help her and evaluate her condition.
I hadn’t had time to process all the images I wanted to post on the blog before I left. Below is one of the images from another morning at Slough Creek, showing the richness of the creek environment with its lush grasses that attract a variety of wildlife, especially birds. The brown color of the American Coot chicks blends in perfectly with the brown color at the base of the grasses where they meet the water.
Slough Creek (click on image to enlarge and then expand w/icon in upper right)
