Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from The Friends of Kootenay National Park
 photo by Larry Halverson

Bouquets of spring-scented flowers, chocolates and heart-shaped boxes or special cards saying ‘I love you” are the order for Valentine’s Day. Here is a heart of a different sort, a valentine designed just for lovers of National Parks, mountains, forests and the outdoors. Nature’s hand has carved this gigantic heart into the forested slopes of Mount Selkirk in Kootenay National Park. It can easily be viewed from the Banff-Windermere Highway.

For information on the  click Friends of Kootenay National Park

Columbia Lake

Autumn fog and smoke transformed this scene into a pastel painting

Columbia Lake, headwaters of the Columbia River which flows 2,000 km northwest and then south before emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Astoria Oregon.

This shallow lake’s average July temperature of 18°C makes it the largest warm water lake in the East Kootenay.