Long road, part 6?

Yellowstone is full of surprises for us humans. 

What looks like a distance fire is really 

the steam coming off a hot springs.

What appears to be snow is a mountainside of glaciers. 

Both/either are beautiful.

Every turn in the road is an adventure, an anticipation. 

And not just tourists are staring at the surroundings. 

We crossed the Continental Divide countless times. 

 And we found the 45th Parallel.

The fireplace in the Old Faithful Inn drew us to its side. 

We sat. 

And every part of landscape held our attention. 

I appreciate everyone's comments! I look forward to catching up on my friends' blogs and stories. Altadena Hiker always makes me laugh out loud, and I see she has a few posts I just gotta read soon. Banjo52 has posts with links of poems and music that I can't wait to sit back and digest. My fellow 'Arizona' bloggers all have photos that I am looking forward to seeing, oohing over, and commenting on. 

Thanks for following Elsa and me on the road. We will be home soon, back to E and the doggies - back to hiking,  to watching sunrises in the Riparian park, thinking too hard, reading too little, and just being in awe at the beauty of life.

Long ribbon... part 5

Today we saw rivers, the super caldera, 

hot springs, and ponds. 

More water, less road.

And we saw more trees. Pasadena Adjacent wrote a comment a few posts back that on a visit she once took, she experienced the same weather... and lodge pole pines. I misread it as "the weather was lodge pole pines" - and you know what, PA? You are right! The pines create a weather of significance. Their scent, their clouding the road, their presence in every photo - nothing but 'weather' has the same ability. Weather is in every photo. And in Yellowstone/the Tetons, pines are too. 

Burnt or virgin, the pines and spruces are one of the beauties a camera lens absorbs. And my eye's camera could not get enough.

Long ribbon of road (er, water) Part 4

The view today was of a ribbon of water, not a long road.

The day struggled between low clouds and drizzle 

until the sun finally came out. 

Old Faithful Inn and the eruption 

(the building doesn't erupt - the geyser does).

Waterfalls are everywhere in Yellowstone -

each one unique, all beautiful.

Elk are bountiful, too. 

Tomorrow the beauty continues...

In an earlier post, Banjo 52 mentioned he'd like to hear the 'conversation' of this trip's inception. Here it is: Elsa has moaned that her 'bucket list' was getting longer, not shorter. (Thanks, Iilya for lending her the movie "The Bucket List"). So, in self defense, I asked to see the 'bucket list' and figure out how many items I could help cross off of it. A trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons was near the top of her list. And that is how we ended up here... on a long ribbon of road. Banjo, this is the short version. Want more?

Long ribbon of road, part 3

Our trip of long ribbon roads continued. 

I forget what day we are where anymore. 

The Tetons, in clouds.

The beauty of Yellowstone

A long ribbon of road

These days I am on a road trip with my mother, Elsa. 

The scenery is beautiful so the photos are plentiful. 

 Gooseneck State Park, Utah. 

That is the San Juan River curling around the rocks...

Church Rock, Utah

Colorado River, Utah

And a hint of Monument Valley, anyone?

Tomorrow, back on the road to Flaming Gorge. 

And hopefully, more photos. 

See ya soon!