Monday, July 9, 2012

Magical Day in the Mountains


                                        
Les' cousin, Randy, and his family were visiting from Arizona.  So we took them on a hiking adventure near Silverton.  We hiked to a beautiful waterfall on the Silverton-Rico trail.  This trail is, without doubt, one of the most beautiful places on earth!




The trail is saturated with many different types of wildflowers.  It was so pretty!  This rosy paintbrush was one of my favorites.

On our way out we saw this big bull moose feeding in the water.  I was so mad at myself because I didn't bring my telephoto lens with me on the hike.  Oh well....still got this decent shot.  
Our magical day ended with a full rainbow over the mountains that followed us for quite awhile.  And then to top it all off (as if it wasn't the most wonderful day already) a big brown bear crossed the highway right in front of us!  
The bear didn't stop to pose for me though, so no pic of him :(

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