A nice morning treat and better than a frosted pop-tart. We recently were greeted by a morning by sunshine topped with a sprinkle of frost on landscape to start the day.
A Canada goose also welcomed the morning and warmth of the suns warming rays.
Frosty mornings are always a welcome reminder of the ephemeral nature of all living things and a wonderful way to begin the day. Happy Monday to all.
Working our way up the ridges towards the sky in Great Sand Dunes National Park. Being in a landscape of essentially two elements felt oddly strange and yet serene. Simple yet complex. On first glance simple but with each probe further the simplicity and patterns repeat. Sky and Sand then sand and wind and so it goes. November, 2015.
Even with ears up and eyes peeled Mom still assumes the role of crossing guard for two adolescent Mule Deer. Great Sand Dunes National Park, 2015. So much to learn so little time.
Natures garden grows many things.
Steam, sun and grass were on full display and just as wondrous as a field of flowers near Firehole Lake in Yellowstone National Park.
Opalescent pool adding a bit of color to an other wise cloudy day.
Yellowstone National Park.
Along the Firehole River seasons pass faster than the river seems to flow.
Snow now cloaks the valley.
The World Wildlife Fund just released their living planet report for 2018. Up front it seems it seem the report could well be titled the dying planet instead of the living planet report given the summary states “On average, we’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The top threats to species identified in the report link directly to human activities, including habitat loss and degradation and the excessive use of wildlife such as overfishing and overhunting.”
You can read the full report here.
or here
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2018
Please pass along the report to all who care and even those that may not.
Photo: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 2018.
When the wind blows
Mountains stand still
Soft clouds speed by
GTNP
Autumn days spent at waters edge looking across a lake or down the rivers path. Grasses slowly gone from green to gold, clouds have replaced the sun and the winds seem to have picked ever so slightly each day as if to give winter its waking breath.
YNP
Fall colors dulled by a sunless sky.
The shapes of grasses and tress take center stage.
What is there to say.
nature has no boss 
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