We love Montana, its people, its places, its wildlife!  Our only regret is not getting here sooner.  But, as my Dad always said “Better late than never!!”  And, Dad said this for almost 97 years.  Fresh snow on “White Bear” – the mountain peak we see out our south facing living room window.  Guess summer [...]

Grandma Dora and I start school today!  We are both online students at Northern Arizona University studying Parks and Recreation Management.  Dora is a junior and I am just starting out!  It is really, really fun to be back in school!!  We all need to study hard!

Cooling rains yesterday – those elk can get out of the river now – and, it feels like fall this morning.  We are soooo blessed to be living in this special place!  Twenty miles away sits Bozeman, a beautiful historic city with all the amenities and none of the hassles!  Google it!!

GrandpaGrizzly.com is fun!!  The two !! I use are to remind our granddaughters, Carolyn and McKenzie, that we think of them always and are looking forward to the days when they come to see us!!

It was really hot in the Park on Wednesday and on the way home Grandma Dora spotted this band of elk cooling themselves in the Gardner River (yes, the river name is spelled correctly – cartographers (map makers) incorrectly added an “i” to the name of the town) near where it joins the Yellowstone.  We’ve never [...]

Congratulations to National Park Service Director, Jon Jarvis; Yellowstone National Park Supervisor, Suzanne Lewis; and, all those responsible for the NEW Old Faithful Visitors Center.  It will serve its purpose well for decades to come! Yesterday we gave GrandpaGrizzly.com business cards to young men from Japan and Romania, a young lady from the United States, [...]

Tomorrow is the grand opening of the new Old Faithful Visitor Center.  If you cannot attend, you can watch a live webstream at the link below.  We’ll definitely be there! http://www.nps.gov/yell/10094.htm

Special thanks to my friend and physical therapist, Mia Sieber, for her wonderful healing work!  Also, thank you to Jason Scott Brown and Kirsten Kovash.

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“Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam…” There are thousands of bison bison (the scientific name for buffalo) in the Lamar Valley along with antelope, elk, wolves, black bears, grizzly bears, and the last visitors of summer fishing and laughing and taking pictures.  All is right with the world!!!