It is easy to feel the connectedness when the sun rises over the vast expanse of grasslands. Getting the opportunity to experience the prairie sunrise is a wonderful opportunity and this project to provide a hut-to-hut experience out in the grasslands is worth supporting.
https://www.americanprairie.org/project/hut-to-hut-system
‘Infinite Landscape’ exhibit benefits American Prairie Reserve
Although it feels like there is space between nothing actually separates the earth and sky. They meet as one and continue on.
Yellowstone National Park, 2017.
Just across the way is a place where there is a place with room to roam although these spaces are decreasing and now under even greater threat. Keep public lands public.
While hiking along the trail on a sunny November afternoon this little Chipmunk scurried hurriedly past of us started digging through the pine litter right beneath our feet. Within seconds what appeared to be a fungus or perhaps a tuber (heck it could have been a piece of petrified cheese) was extracted from the ground and enjoyed on the spot.
A fine looking male Canvasback rests on the edge of the ice as December makes its arrival known.
Although the crops have long been harvested this farmers field was full of life with White Tailed Deer and Ring Necked Pheasants sharing the remains of a season growth.
When the wind blew above the hill on a late fall day I took comfort in having time for observation in this period dominated by information.
On a warm November day with blue sky above, a fresh dusting snow below and those beautiful dark purple clouds floating in the sky I was gently reminded that winter is on its way.
Change is good.
Yellowstone National Park.
A female Hooded Merganser sits quietly in the cattails protected by three Males. Feels like a story or a painting waiting to happen.
Just across the ravine the morning light shines golden on grasslands of Yellowstone National park.
nature has no boss 
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