The long view from the Norris Hot Springs area looking out towards the Gallatin Mountain range.
Facing into the ever changing wind as steam heads our way at Biscuit Basin.
A Bison enjoying some open space around Black Sand basin.
Hot water pouring into the Firehole rive as steam clouds the lodgepole forest behind at Midway Geyser Basin.
Yellow cliffs, blue waters and an ominous sky filled the landscape this day as we looked down the Yellowstone river. Each time we look from this spot our focus might shift from river to rock to all of the above. A place with a story to tell.
Hot pools sparkle with color on a mostly cloudless autumn day. Blue pools ringed with living color in the form of thermophilic bacteria mix with a bluebird sky at Biscuit Basin.
At Norris the color palette is extensive and the views expansive.
Many species of Bacteria form the colorful mats found in many geyser basins. Thriving in temperatures that range from a comfortable 30C all the way up to 80C and providing a visual confirmation that life is indeed varied and diverse.
Afternoon clouds rolled though and dotted the sky adding another layer of color to the wonderful landscape below.
Sitting, waiting and watching the earth doing it’s thing on a cloudy October day.
The mud volcano bubbles and the colors tell a story. Getting a first hand glimpse of the processes that make this planet help bring geology alive.
Looking into dragon mouth springs for the dragon to appear.
As the skies clear the clouds whizz by and earth and sky seemingly become one.
Layers of color in a layered land. Northern Colorado near the Wyoming Border.
October light brightens the morning as a Red Winged Blackbird perches in a bush of golden leaves. The leaves were falling just as fast as the colors were fading from the wings of this beautiful bird.
The October clouds just seem to move faster, get bigger and always seem just a bit darker. A time between the bluebird skies of summer and the socked-in days of winter. A little of each yet nothing like either.
October clouds reflected in the Lamar Valley.
Happy Friday and a good weekend to all.
Spending time watching the clouds and light change on at Iron Spring Creek. Autumn grass and sky were on display and ever changing just as the weather was that day.
While looking south the clouds filled then left the sky to various degree in just 15 minutes time.
Then turning to look north the sky was gray and filled with soft clouds…
…but within 15 minutes a bit of blue filled the sky and color filled the landscape at Iron Spring Creek on this early October day.
A ponderosa pine strong and silent sits high upon the Blacktail Plateau.
Welcome to October.
nature has no boss 
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