June 10, 2017
I got to have a wonderful visit with my daughter and only grandson last weekend. Kris, her friend, Patti, and grandson Cian came up to Yellowstone and I drove over to camp with them. They were camping at Grant Village so we spent a lot of time on the loop road, checking out some of the geyser fields.
We also got to enjoy a little wildlife. I only saw elk and bison but Kris saw a bear after I left.
And the weather was not very accommodating. It was mostly cold and cloudy with a few short intervals of sun. The steam was so low and thick that pictures were hard to come by. And I had to drive through a blizzard in the mountains west of Yellowstone.
But here is a little of what I captured.
This week, I'm having to stay close to the refuge and do a bee survey. All the working week was too cold and wet to survey the bees. I'm also closely monitoring our dam and trying to make sure we capture as much water as possible.
I got to have a wonderful visit with my daughter and only grandson last weekend. Kris, her friend, Patti, and grandson Cian came up to Yellowstone and I drove over to camp with them. They were camping at Grant Village so we spent a lot of time on the loop road, checking out some of the geyser fields.
We also got to enjoy a little wildlife. I only saw elk and bison but Kris saw a bear after I left.
And the weather was not very accommodating. It was mostly cold and cloudy with a few short intervals of sun. The steam was so low and thick that pictures were hard to come by. And I had to drive through a blizzard in the mountains west of Yellowstone.
But here is a little of what I captured.
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| Grand Prismatic Spring |
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| Another view of Grand Prismatic Spring |
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| Nettle bud |
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| Think this is a kind of a penstemon - loved by long tongued bees. |
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| Edge of one of the pools |
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| Pastel view, including the white stumps |
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| The bird flew but the colors remained |
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| Kris and Cian |
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| Female common goldeneye in Yellowstone Lake |
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| View at Tom Thumb |
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| Big Cone - the only geyser above the high waters of Yellowstone Lake |
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| Another Tom Thumb View |
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| Geyser field at Tom Thumb- first good light I'd had all week |
This week, I'm having to stay close to the refuge and do a bee survey. All the working week was too cold and wet to survey the bees. I'm also closely monitoring our dam and trying to make sure we capture as much water as possible.
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