A few pictures from our trip to Yellowstone Park...

I wanted to share a few shots of our trip to Yellowstone Park and so here they are.  We went the last week in August and that seemed to be a good time to visit.  Less people because most schools had started, but there were quite comfortable temperatures.  It was our first visit to the area and we went with another couple that we've been friends with for a long, long time.  We did have a lot of fun.  

I will say that I am a person who tends to have motion sickness.  Always have had.  It's the reason that cruises don't sound fun to me and, though I love mountains, the windy up-and-down roads affect me as well.  I didn't take as many pictures because I had to take meds (happily the lower-dose so that I was actually awake - ha!) for 9 of the 10 days we were gone.  Have to have them when I fly as well.  So, I was a little 'off', but still able to enjoy.  

If you haven't been to this part of the world, I think it's worth it. 

 

I shared this photo in an earlier post, but wanted to say that the mountains here are the Tetons.  This was actually outside the boundary of Yellowstone in the southern region.

There are lots of grand vistas and you can see in the lower part the edge of where we stood and then how far down the Yellowstone River actually was.  Just beautiful.

Another picture of the Yellowstone River.  The house where we stayed actually backed up to the river and there were canoes and kayaks and other boats going by.  Lots of ducks, swans, birds of all kinds.  My husband and his friend did a bit of fishing, but they didn't catch anything.  Fun though anyway.

This is 'Old Faithful' erupting.  Turned out that the day we visited Old Faithful, it rained most of the day.  We ended up wearing some 'lovely' yellow ponchos as we waited for the eruption.  There were a lot of people waiting, even though it was pretty much pouring.  Ha!  Afterwards, we were glad to go to the visitor center and learn more.  There were several visitor centers to stop and see all over Yellowstone.  Well worth walking through.

This was the 'Mud Caldron' area.  There were walkways and trails all around that visitors can stop and experience.  One does want to stay on the walkways, etc. because the steam is serious.  The park rangers have signs and warnings all around.  Some people though don't seem to want to follow the rules.

The 'Devil's Thumb' area.  It's really fascinating to see and also, as I said above, to go to the visitor centers and see the exhibits about how and why this happens. 

Can you say, 'Hello, Mr. Bison?' - ha!  There are many, many of these creatures in Yellowstone.  You can see them on the hillsides, in the valleys, and just walking down the road - usually right in the middle.  I took this shot out the car window.  

Another creature that I wasn't quite as anxious to say 'Hello' - a bear.  We got several shots of this one, but you can understand why the visitors that have tele-photo lenses get the better pictures.  After seeing Mr. Bear (guess he was a Mr., maybe a Ms.), I jumped back in the car.  There were a bunch of people that didn't do that though.  Some were close on the right side of the picture.  A couple of the photographers with those tele-photo lenses started shouting at the people to get back in their cars - the bear was coming.  Some did and some did not - silly people!

The last two pictures I'll share are of some wildflowers.  I think we were a little late in the season for flowers, but I enjoyed getting a couple of pictures.

Last wildflower picture.  And last picture I'll share.  As I said, hope you get to visit this area at some point if you haven't.  It's definitely a wonderful and picturesque place.