Random things I saw in the Rockies

Lake Beauvert; the eerie patterns left by leaf miner worms in aspen leaves; Lake Patricia; a tree in Maligne Canyon -- it probably once grew over a fallen tree that has since rotted away, leaving it standing on stilts.

More pine beetle damage

An otherwise idyllic picture from Pyramid Lake in Jasper.

Postcard shot

I'll probably resume Rockies blogging tomorrow when I'm less grumpy, but here's a lovely mountain, seen from the Icefields Parkway, in the meantime.

Those reddish trees in the foreground add a nice color contrast, but unfortunately they're brown because they're dead. Even in the Canadian Rockies, winters are no longer cold enough to keep the pine beetles in check.