Photo challenge: Cherry on Top:
In 2013 we went on a family trip to the Rockies. My daughter took her stuffed unicorn along, and it shows up in several pictures. I like the effect.
Photo challenge: Cherry on Top:
In 2013 we went on a family trip to the Rockies. My daughter took her stuffed unicorn along, and it shows up in several pictures. I like the effect.
Posted in Photography, Vacations
Tagged cherry on top, photo challenge, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
Posted in Photography, Travel
Tagged Climate change, forest fires, Lodge Pole Pines, Look up, photo challenge, photography, travel, Yellowstone National Park
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged badger, nature, photo challenge, photography, Yellowstone National Park
This is what I get from trying to do these vacation posts by theme. I end up with leftovers–pictures that don’t fit in any theme, or I don’t have enough pictures on a topic to merit a whole themed post. Yet I feel like showing them. So this last post about our Yellowstone do-over is pretty unorganized. Hard to accept for a former librarian, but there it is. Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tourists, nature, Opinion, photography, travel, trees, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
Like I mentioned before, the central part of Yellowstone is a caldera, a piece of land that collapsed over a volcanic hotspot. Lava heats water that seeps down through cracks in the broken earth’s surface, and the steam and water find their way back to the surface in hot springs, geysers, mudpots and fumeroles. Continue reading
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Tagged bacteria, extremophiles, fotografie, fumeroles, geysers, heat-loving bacteria, hot psrings, mud pots, nature, natuur, photography, thermophiles, travel, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
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Tagged fotografie, landscapes, landschappen, nature, natuur, photography, reizen, skies, travel, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
The bottoms of concrete structures, dead trees–whatever next? Well, the bottoms of dead trees, of course. There are a lot of them in Yellowstone. Isn’t the bottom of one dead tree much like the bottom of another, you ask? Not at all; like the bottoms of bridges, each deadfall has its own personality.
Posted in Bottoms of Bridges, Nature, Photography, Vacations
Tagged deadfall, humor, nature, photography, travel, tree roots, trees, uprooted trees, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
Last year I had intended to do a post about the trees in Yellowstone, and the wildfires, but I didn’t have enough good pictures. As we drove out of the park on only our second morning there, on our way to the hospital in Cody, I snapped photos of burnt stretches from the RV window, but of course they didn’t work out. That’s when black and white helps. Well, I felt it did, anyway.
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Tagged lodgepole pines, nature, photography, travel, trees, vacations, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
A large part of Yellowstone National Park is a caldera, land that collapsed and crumbled after volcanic activity. Water seeps through the cracks and is heated by the magma below the surface. Pressure builds and steam and water burst to the surface in geysers. Continue reading
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Tagged geysers, nature, Old Faithful, photography, travel, vacations, Yellowstone National Park
The wildlife was incredible. Of course there were the buffalo–or the bison, as B kept correcting us–and this time they had calves, so we kept our distance a bit more, except when we were in or near the car. Continue reading
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Tagged badgers, bison, black bears, blacktail deer, buffalo, bull snakes, elk, grizzly bears, marmots, nature, photography, pronghorns, travel, vacation, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
Our three-week RV trip of the Rockies and Yellowstone National Park last summer (which started here), ended sadly when B’s appendix ruptured and we spent the last four days in the Cody, Wyoming hospital instead of in Yellowstone. This summer we had one week, and lots of T’s flying miles, so we went to Yellowstone for a do-over.
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Tagged Bear Lake, Idaho, Montana, nature, Rocky Mountains, Salt Lake City. Utah, travel, Yellowstone National Park
I was very tempted to use a bridge photo, but that would be a spoiler for a future post. I like this one, too, though, because it shows reflections of different things in different sections.
In Yellowstone National Park, dogs are allowed in cars and campers, but not outside except for in the campsites, on leashes. I took this picture of a small dog in a huge RV in a parking lot near a waterfall. I was wondering when I was going to use this picture. Thanks for the challenge!
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Tagged campers, dogs, honden, reflections, RV's, weekly photo challenge, Yellowstone National Park
Okay, I’ve put it off long enough. I’ve managed to prolong our vacation through these photo posts, but now I’ve come to the end. Not that there won’t be more photo posts about the Rockies, but they can wait. Continue reading
So we saw bison and elk, and two wolves at the river’s edge. They were playing and taking their time, and people were taking pictures from the other side, but just when I was finally almost close enough to start taking killer photos, they decided to leave. Aaaarrrghhh! The photos of the elk in the previous post were my photography high point of the vacation, and these wolves were my biggest photography frustration. Continue reading
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Tagged grizzly bear, nature, photography, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The other animal that we saw a lot of in Yellowstone was elk. Apart from when you’re in the car, it’s not a good idea to get too close to bison, but I got pretty close to a beautiful male elk. I think I was about eight feet away at some point. That’s also not recommended; the grammatically annoying signs everywhere say that “all wildlife are dangerous”. Continue reading
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Tagged elk, nature, photography, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Apart from the mud volcano and the mud pots and a few fumaroles at the beginning of our day, we mainly saw animals. So many that we never got to the next geothermal feature. And mostly we saw bison. Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Photography, Travel, Vacations
Tagged bison, nature, photography, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The next day we woke up to find ourselves in a wonderful campground, with lots of trees and little trails going off behind our site. Not that we spent any time there. We left after breakfast and didn’t come back until well after dark. Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Photography, Travel, Vacations
Tagged caldera, fumaroles, mud volcano, nature, photography, sulfur pots, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
So the last three posts were all about one day, and it still wasn’t over. We got to Jackson Hole in the evening. You can tell by the gas station that it’s a prosperous town.
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Tagged elk antlers, Jackson Hole, nature, photography, stagecoach, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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