Wow, Dale, that is one stunning scene. I hope your kids enjoy the fair today, and you, too, since we all know you're just a big kid in a grown-up body.
Dale, these photos are breathtaking - magical. How I'd love to go there too. We live in such a beautiful world, and I'm so happy we can share these glimpses of our own special corners with each other.
We've just come back from our last weekend in Belgium for a while as I've sold my boat there and this weekend was spent moving out, with all the attendant clearing up and cleaning. Hard work! I'll miss it, especially the lovely countryside and my garden there, but I'll also miss listening to and speaking my own terrible French- it's such a beautiful language.
Thanks for showing us your spectacular surroundings and by the way, yes, how was the fair?? Love Val
We had a great time at the fair, Val. The kids were so very excited! Bob & Jen went on a really scary ride that went all the way upside down. I wanted to ride it, too, but you had to be in pairs & I was odd man out. So I watched - hanging onto George digging my little toes in...
Was it sad for you to sell your Belgian barge? It sounded like a lovely place, garden & all.
I love being able to see into other people's corners, too. It is an amazing world we live in!
Gorgeous photo Dale! It is nice to see places that are still unspoiled by "Progress". Thanks for sharing! You really do live in a beautiful corner of the world.
"Moraine Lake" is a name that is based on a glacial formation, indeed, from a glacier. A moraine is a deposit of rocks that settles out of a glacier as it flows. There are different types of moraines, but I won't go there at this time, to spare you the delicate details.
Why do I even say all of this? Because my background, to some degree, is geology. I happen to have noticed the unusual color of the water in the lake of your photo. The most common explanation of an "aqua blue" color in an alpine environment lake is simple...proximity to an active glacier. The slow grinding of the glacial ice against the rock and soil pulverizes the material into a fine dust-like silt. It then makes it's way into the water that inevitably forms at the terminus of a glacial flow. Unique it's in own way, this special silt causes the aqua color.
I understand Banff is a very beautiful place, exhibiting much of what I am describing to you.
My up close and personal experience with glaciers is, so far, limited to those in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. There are many there, though of a different realm of sorts.
Hello Dan & Welcome I, too, am familiar with the different types of moraine, having lived in the mountains all these years. Lateral moraine, left after the glaciers receded, is quite prevalent in our valley. We call this lateral moraine along the edges of our valley "the benchlands". Our lake is also quite blue, but it is not so directly affected by the glacial melt as some of the higher altitude bodies of water. It "blues up" quite nicely during spring run-off - which has only barely begun here. Geology was one of my favourite subjects in school.Thanks! :) Dale
This photo is of Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
ReplyDeleteIt is located up a winding mountain road not far from Lake Louise in Banff National Park.
It is a beautiful lake with Moraine Lake Lodge upon its shore.
The husband of one of my best friends used to work up there during the summers and I have many fond memories of this wildly spectacular place.
Wow, Dale, that is one stunning scene. I hope your kids enjoy the fair today, and you, too, since we all know you're just a big kid in a grown-up body.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous weekend, my dear!
Cheers,
AM
Hey thanks, AM.
ReplyDeleteI am smiling now.
:)
Dale
I love you mum.
ReplyDeletebeautiful picture.
heee heee im coming home soooon
xox
love you
?Beth?
thankyou dale..for your kind words..x...
ReplyDeleteDale, these photos are breathtaking - magical. How I'd love to go there too. We live in such a beautiful world, and I'm so happy we can share these glimpses of our own special corners with each other.
ReplyDeleteWe've just come back from our last weekend in Belgium for a while as I've sold my boat there and this weekend was spent moving out, with all the attendant clearing up and cleaning. Hard work! I'll miss it, especially the lovely countryside and my garden there, but I'll also miss listening to and speaking my own terrible French- it's such a beautiful language.
Thanks for showing us your spectacular surroundings and by the way, yes, how was the fair??
Love
Val
We had a great time at the fair, Val.
ReplyDeleteThe kids were so very excited!
Bob & Jen went on a really scary ride that went all the way upside down.
I wanted to ride it, too, but you had to be in pairs & I was odd man out.
So I watched - hanging onto George digging my little toes in...
Was it sad for you to sell your Belgian barge?
It sounded like a lovely place, garden & all.
I love being able to see into other people's corners, too. It is an amazing world we live in!
:)
Dale
Hi Dale,
ReplyDeleteThis photo is beautiful!! Thanks for posting it!!!
Love,
Elena
Gorgeous photo Dale!
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see places that are still unspoiled by "Progress".
Thanks for sharing! You really do live in a beautiful corner of the world.
XX
Zoe
Thanks all!
ReplyDeleteI know I am very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world & so close to unspoiled nature!
:)
Dale
Dale:
ReplyDeleteMight I comment on the photo?
"Moraine Lake" is a name that is based on a glacial formation, indeed, from a glacier. A moraine is a deposit of rocks that settles out of a glacier as it flows. There are different types of moraines, but I won't go there at this time, to spare you the delicate details.
Why do I even say all of this? Because my background, to some degree, is geology. I happen to have noticed the unusual color of the water in the lake of your photo. The most common explanation of an "aqua blue" color in an alpine environment lake is simple...proximity to an active glacier. The slow grinding of the glacial ice against the rock and soil pulverizes the material into a fine dust-like silt. It then makes it's way into the water that inevitably forms at the terminus of a glacial flow. Unique it's in own way, this special silt causes the aqua color.
I understand Banff is a very beautiful place, exhibiting much of what I am describing to you.
My up close and personal experience with glaciers is, so far, limited to those in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. There are many there, though of a different realm of sorts.
Glad to visit your blog!
Peace and happiness always,
--Dan L.
Hello Dan & Welcome
ReplyDeleteI, too, am familiar with the different types of moraine, having lived in the mountains all these years.
Lateral moraine, left after the glaciers receded, is quite prevalent in our valley.
We call this lateral moraine along the edges of our valley "the benchlands".
Our lake is also quite blue, but it is not so directly affected by the glacial melt as some of the higher altitude bodies of water.
It "blues up" quite nicely during spring run-off - which has only barely begun here.
Geology was one of my favourite subjects in school.Thanks!
:)
Dale
My parents took me to this lake when I was a kid. This photo is absolutely beautiful!
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