A back roads trip

Since I slept in a little bit today, and wasn’t feeling terribly ambitious, I just kind of lazed about the rig today.  Couldn’t sit outside much because of all the flies, so I waited until early evening to head out for a trip on some of the back roads in the area.  I checked out several of the National forest campgrounds in the area, and they were all quite nice.  Some of them even had sites with electricity.
I also stopped back at the Island Lake Reservoir to see if I could get some better pictures of the Western grebe family.  They were no where to be seen, but a pair of white pelicans were paddling around the dam area.
                                     Mrs. and Mr. Pelican were just loafing.
And doing a little feather maintenance.
A ring-billed gull was also taking a break from food finding on the rocks of the dam.

We left the dam and headed down another back road…
…and met this fellow in the middle of the woods.  I’m not quite sure what he was doing there.  :)

I was hoping to see maybe a moose or a bear as we turned down a rustic National forest road, but it was not to be. 
However, there were some new flowers blooming along the way.  These little beauties have just started arriving.
I think this might be among the first of the Indian paintbrushes.  They are just beginning to show up.  What a marvelous wild flower display there has been in the mountains this year.

After moving the satellite dish the other day, it appears that I have parked the car too close to the rig and interfered with the signal.  So, I’d better go move the car so I can watch a little TV before I head off to bed.  :(

Thanks for stopping by….talk to you later,  Judy