Ute Schmid-Jones: Photographs of Canada's North / #SnowflakeLady

Alexandra Falls/Louise Falls Nature Trail: Mushroom and Fungus Photographs Taken: August 29, 2020 Photographer: #Snowflakelady (Ute Schmid-Jones) Location: The... Hiking Nature Trail that Connects the Twin Falls System of Alexandra Falls and Louise Falls Time: 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Part Three of Three Please note: When there are groupings of mushrooms growing in a community on a single tree system, I've started that grouping with the wider image of the tree, then provided a series of close ups of the variety or different groupings growing along the tree, both trunk and base. #ResidentialTourist #Mynorthernadventure #NWT #NWTSpecies #NWTMushrooms #NWTFungi #Fungi #Mushrooms

Louise Falls is one of the two Falls in the Twin Falls system in the Northwest Territories (Alexandra Falls is the other) that drains in two stages into the mig...hty Mackenzie River. I parked my car at the Alexandra Falls location and then decided to "hike" the trail between them, since the sign said it would only take a half hour. What the sign posters didn't take into consideration is that I would stop and drop a deep knee bend for each mushroom and fungus that I saw on my way! It took #Snowflakelady considerably longer. I got a good workout though and I will post those fantastic fungus photos when I arrive tonight at my next destination. (my hotel room expires shortly) It was well worth the long and very tiring hike to Louise Falls and back to Alexandra Falls. I made it back in time to avoid dusk and too many nipping insects. I have a decent cluster of itchy welts on my left shoulder region though. A "souvenir" to remind me of an incredibly awesome day hiking to and documenting THREE of the Northwest Territories' most beautiful waterfall places. I'm sure there are many many more waterfalls, but few accessible financially or publicly. I love that all three of these Waterfalls have women's names! Unfortunately, the whimsical and very well constructed (#engineersrock) spiral staircase that takes visitors down to the falls level was marked closed with caution tape on my arrival day; likely because the water levels are so high this year with all of the heavy rain events and the ground is probably quite swampy right now. So I stuck my head in just far enough to photograph them. Louise Falls was perhaps the most gracious of these three because she actually allowed me to get a few "selfie" photographs with her! She's such an accommodating #publicfigure. #ResidentialTourist #Mynorthernadventure #NWT #NWTWaterfalls

All along the nature trail that links the Twin Falls: Alexandra Falls and Louise Falls in the Northwest Territories, there many gorgeous interpretive Disks. A...s a woman, this particular disk's "story" touched my heart deeply. It's important to preserve ALL of our natural resources in Canada and share them responsibly while protecting the environment. Our stories are most certainly some of those natural resources. Our indigenous languages are an INTEGRAL natural resource that we almost allowed to go "extinct". Funding the research, preservation, documentation, continuing development and every-day use of indigenous languages in Canada should be a high priority for federal government. #Snowflakelayd #ResidentialTourist #MyNorthernAdventure #NWT #NWTCulture #NWTNaturalResources