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The Canadians last week announced a moratorium on mining the North Fork, which is fantastic news.
I'd been hoping to show a little cheerier picture of the landscape, but it's been fairly dark and dreary. This is the sun yesterday afternoon. I shot it with a Leica M9, Leica's new digital full-frame camera. So far I haven't taken many landscape shots with it. It's just been too gray and cloudy. "It's like getting a new pair of skates and then all it does is rain," my wife said.

I did, however, get this shot of a herd of elk with the Nikon, while I was hoping the skies would clear....

My wife has been sick so I haven't been in Glacier as much this winter. But I did escape the other day and got some decent light as the sun faded. Here, a horned grebe watches its mate dive in Lake McDonald.

Boy Wonder and I have been getting out snowshoeing (or in this case, just plain old walking) in the Park quite a bit this winter. Last weekend we saw some trumpeter swans that had been spending the winter in the Park and I hoped we'd see them again today. But we didn't. At least not for a few hours. And then there they were, flying by us, two adults and three signets. I never get sick of swans. The second adult is out of the frame.

We had a moonless clear night the other night and I got out and took a few long exposures. This one was about 13 minutes. The horizontal streak is an airplane. I suspect the bright streak at lower right is a planet, but I have no idea which one. The problem with taking these photos is the cold. It was about 10 below.