When we went to Yellowstone last week, we came across this moose in the meadow near Silver Gate both on our way up to Cooke City and again when we were leaving.   And, this morning I remembered a little saying I learned from a park ranger years ago about how to tell a pine [...]

This is my kind of buffalo jump!! This little one was running, jumping, and playing very near the spot where the road washed away at the confluence of the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek.  The washout was from the power of the rivers caused by the snow melt up in the mountains.  This little [...]

The Yellowstone This is the first time I have tried to include a video clip in our posting so I hope this works. This is from Friday when we went down to the Park and was shot in Yankee Jim Canyon just north of Gardiner, MT.  Flooding will continue as our temperatures are supposed to [...]

Some pictures of the “great” (if you can call it that) Yellowstone River flooding going on right now.  There is still a lot (about 30 feet on top of the Beartooth Mountains) of snow to melt which will probably keep the rivers at flood stage for several weeks.

Although this photo was taken last summer during a storm (and out our living room window), it looks very much like what it looked like last night.  Stormy with a brilliant sunshine filled “hole” in the clouds. Off to Yellowstone this morning!!

Today is great-nephew, Matthew’s, 18th birthday.  Doesn’t seem like it can possibly be!!  He’s off to college in the fall and we know he will do great!!

It may not be tomorrow, but we are on our way back to the Park.  Grandma Dora is a college student and just finished her first summer course ahead of schedule so we plan to really enjoy ourselves for the next couple of weeks.  And, it looks like the weather is on our side!!  Hope [...]

And, it looks like it is going to be an absolutely perfect day – sunshine with temps in the mid-70′s~

Good luck, owl man!!  Hope you have great weather and lots of finds.

Love you, Doug and Mary!!  Thank you for the very, very special Father’s Day card.