When the water gets rough you can always count on finding Common Mergansers riding the rapids, foraging and having a great time doing it.
Tag: yellowstone national park
Tour Guide
One of Yellowstone National Parks wonderful tour guides pointing out Floating Island Lake in the morning light. A little past due but November 1st was National Bison Day. We sure are lucky to still have these guys walking around free in a few spots on the globe.
Free range
In place where there is still a smidgen of free range we enjoyed observing the Antelope go about their day.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
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Artists Paintpots
In a place with unlimited color, texture and forms it’s hard to know what to focus the camera on.
One moment it’s concrete then the next it’s abstract.
Dipping the lens into an area called Artists paintpots and observing in wonder at the beauty of our natural world.
Monochromes From The Park
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.
Along the Yellowstone
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.
The first graders
These kids made it through kindergarten and are now on to first grade. Elk and mule deer that were only Fawns and calves just a short time ago are heading into winter as the first snows have hit the ground.
A young mule deer wondering what this white stuff is all about.
An elk calf ponders their next move just a short time ago when the plants still were rich with green.
Perhaps a few leaves from this wild rose will do.
Good luck kids and we hope you make it to second grade next spring.
Happy weekend to all.
Living Color
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.
Boil…boil
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.
Dusky Grouse
A Dusky Grouse keeping quiet while waiting for us to move along as we walked through the cottonwood trees in the creek bed. Seeing these birds move through the dry leaves and into the cottonwood trees with colors so similar to their own just makes a fall day feel…just like fall.
nature has no boss 
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