Two young bucks, equally matched, practice their game on a late fall afternoon.
While not quite ready to face off with the big bull elk these guys will have their day.
Tag: yellowstone
A Ravens Beard
Face to face with the Ravens Beard and a tidy well kept beard to boot.
…yes, the earth breathes
Watching the earth breath in and out reminds me that this system is alive.
Alive in a way we might not fully understand as the pieces and connections are known yet the interactions a complex.
We have the knowledge yet lack the understanding or so it seems.
How to make it understood is a question we seem to struggle with. Perhaps seeing and observing can help in some way soften the mind to consider complex ideas and then understanding will follow. Time spent just looking is thus time well spent.
Fountain Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park, 2018.
Along Blacktail Creek
Up and down, over and around each layer of wonderful hill.
Curves blend to form a single landscape yet each remains it’s own.
Good Evening
A setting sun over the Gallatin range is a nice way to end the day and start the weekend.
Cheers.
Clarks Nutcracker
A regular and constant companion on forest hikes is the Clarks’s Nutcracker. This day instead of foraging for pine nuts this nutcracker was busy feasting on crickets on a late fall afternoon. We watched as she swooped down from a tree landed in a field and quickly picked up a cricket. We were quite surprised as it had been quite cold and well below freezing yet there were insects to be found.
Clark’s are fascinating birds that each year bury tens of thousands of pine nuts. They remember the location of a large majority of the seeds which they consume during the winter. The seeds they forget then may become new trees and thus the Clarks it integral to the growth of new forests.
Roaring
With the sun just rising in the east the aptly named Roaring Mountain gave us a little talking to one fall morning.
It was a short and pleasant chat with someone speaking a language easily understood.
