Mountain Sheep

No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get one single photo that I liked of this group of Mountain Sheep we came across the other day, lol. I think the main reason was that they were on a steep hillside, so the grass was very close behind them and I just could not get a blurred background. This is perhaps the "best" of my Mountain Sheep shots, though I still haven't carefully gone through all the photos I took over the two days.

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My friends, Cathy and Terry, and I, had left Calgary early morning on Wednesday (14 May 2014) and I think it was around 12:15 a.m. midnight (Thursday, 15 May 2014), that they dropped me off at home after two long, wonderful days in the Rocky Mountains, west of the city. Wednesday night was spent in a spotless motel, in a place that had so many Mountain Sheep roaming the streets, lol! These were different animals from the female in my image here. Though we were hoping to see at least one Bear, I was happy as can be to see absolutely anything beautiful : )

Over the two days, we had 7 bear sightings, with three definitely different Black Bears (no Grizzlies), and possibly four. The rest of the sightings were of Bears we had already seen. My friends are good at telling individual bears, often by a certain scar and, of course, the actual location. Many of the bears we see, they have seen before.

I was so tired after the trip, that I had no choice but to fall into bed at 7:00 p.m. yesterday evening, thinking that a short nap might help. I slept for something like 13 hours with a couple of hours awake (and on my computer) in the middle! I think the excruciating pain in both arms and shoulders was a factor in my utter tiredness, too.