Yesterday we visited our resident trumpeter swans at Sacajawea Park here in Livingston.  It was a beautiful day and they were enjoying the sunshine and the warmth.  There is a lagoon in the Park and the moving water from the Yellowstone River that flows into it.  So there is open water almost year round for [...]

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 [...]

The Paradise Valley from Livingston, MT to Gardiner, MT is truly majestic!  You follow the Yellowstone River through never ending ranches surrounded by high mountains on either side of the road.  Visual overload even before you arrive at Yellowstone National Park and so much history.