It’s hard to believe that July, and peak tourism season in Yellowstone, is quickly coming to an end.  I remember this time the summer I worked in the Park as each day it seemed more of the employees were leaving to go home and back to school.  Schools on the semester system start at the [...]

Our boys love soaking up the summer sunshine!! Redi, Biggie is about two times the size of Ruff, Little Bit.  What Little Bit lacks in size he makes up for in speed.  The remind us of Andy and Barney on the old Andy Griffith show – one of our all time favorite television series. When [...]

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A re-designed north entrance to Yellowstone is being considered.  Go to:  http://parkplanning.nps.gov/yell to read the plan, see designs, and to make comments.  Deadline for comments in AUGUST 13th.  It’s your Park so take advantage of this opportunity for input. The north entrance is the original, historic entrance used by Teddy Roosevelt and many other dignitaries [...]

Five months until McKenzie’s birthday!! This picture was taken several years ago and won a prize in the photography contest at the Coconino County Fair in Arizona where we were living. We can’t wait until we have a chance to show our girls Yellowstone National Park our way!!

We are so fortunate to live in Montana – it really is the last best place you can ever hope to find.  Our temperatures may get warm during the day here in Livingston but we almost always cool down into the 50′s at night.  We had a cold front go through so night before last [...]

Yellowstone National Park is a giant bouquet of wildflowers now!!  This flower is called a cow parsnip – kind of strange but that’s it.  Make that cow elk or cow bison rather than your domesticated cattle. I was thinking how few animals we saw yesterday in the park because they have moved to higher ground [...]

We’re off the Park today and I was reminded of when my son, Doug, and I “discovered” bears in Yellowstone.  There were only about 200 in the whole ecosystem and today conservative estimates have 600-1000 grizzly bears in the same area.  So, the backcountry is crowded and we don’t go there.  Remember to always have [...]

I feel guilty talking about our hot spell since it was nothing like so much of the country is experiencing.  But, it was hot to us – high’s in the mid-90′s.  That’s over for a short time and this morning at Yellowstone Lake the wind chill (YES, wind chill) was 42 degrees.  What a beautiful, [...]

Earl Cacho painted this portrait of me in a previous life!!