Wild Idaho

Yesterday was the day we have all been waiting for. Hardly a cloud in a brilliant, blue sky, lots of sun, and a nice breeze to keep it from getting too hot.

So, Nancy and I headed down to Corbin Park with photography in mind. It was so fun. I ended up with just under 200 photographs in the hour we had. Normally when I take that many photos, I am only happy with one or two. But a beautiful day makes an okay photographer a much better one.

Corbin Park is on the Spokane River below the Post Falls Dam. In addition to the usual things a park offers: picnicking, barbeques, ball field, and trails, it also has a frisbee golf course... looks like fun, but we had to duck a couple of times as we were snapping away. We also discovered a kayaker practicing his up-the-stream technique against an insistent current. We did happen across some wild flowers, but not as many as we expected to see.

And it was fun to find several critters out enjoying the sunshine as much as we were. There was a marmot surveying his domain on the top of a rock precipice. He did not seem disturbed at all as we bumbled around on the rocks below him, even as we shot lots of photos of him.

Several Canadian Geese were out, like the kayaker, braving the current of the swollen river. And we came across a baby robin who had probably just ventured out of the nest for the first time and stood under a bush blinking as he seemed to be pondering his next move, a little dazed and confused. Not unlike many teenagers I know (adults, too, for that matter).