Other places and other thoughts

Above Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park
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Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park
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Middle Fork River in West Glacier
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Vicky and I are excited about our trip to Cozumel, but there has been something else on my mind for awhile and that something else is that next July I will turn 65. That seems to be a milestone I would like to mark in a way that replenishes my soul, fulfills a goal/dream that has been set aside, adds a new experience to my life, and finds me in a new place to photograph to my hearts content. With very little thought, my heart said we should be on top of some mountain in Glacier National Park, July 29th, 2011 and within short order my mind and heart were in agreement. Now, my heart is going to step back just a step or two, and let my mind get all three of us there, to an yet unnamed
mountain top somewhere in Glacier National Park, on July 29, 2011. Stop by, there will be a party going on.

A friend of mine, who lives in Montana, is familiar with Glacier and has offered a few suggestions of some places to check out. Also, I have been using Google earth to do some aerial reconnaissance of the park. It just blows me away. With a couple clicks I am checking the lay of the land in a way only dreamt of a few years ago.

There will be much information to gather before concrete plans are made, but for now the basic plan is in place to get there, be there, breathe deep, and count my blessings. Jerry Garcia's road might have been along strange trip; mine has been simply about getting to here. And what a grand place it is.

Just in case any of you are asking why would Dennis picked Glacier National Park to turn 65, here are a few pics I lifted from Google earth. I will gather many of my own, and one day tell my grand daughters about all that I saw. Raging glacial fed rivers; mountain meadows as far as the eye can see; mountains that look like they were just made yesterday; glaciers that will be gone within 20 years, and even a few mountain lakes. Then there will be all the wild things.