Jellystone Park
On Saturday, May 30, we made it into Yellowstone park and all the way to Old Faithful which is surrounded by new construction and renovation of the lodges, and still a few patches of snow on the ground. We stopped at a few geysers and hot pools on the way, including this one that kept splashing and fuming all the time we were there. Back home, I told my boss that the ranger said that for ten bucks, I could name the little geyser for a day and that I handed over the money and called it "Mom's Temper".

Of course, "Mom" took a picture of me at Grand Prysmatic Spring, and you now know why most pictures in this blog are of her, rather than me. I can't say as I'm too photogenic at this age.




Yellowstone seems full of Buffalo, or rather Bison. In 1900 there were only 50 Bison in the park and they were interbred with 20 plains Bison which were almost extinct after the great slaughter of the late 1800's. Now the protected animals are everywhere and all the fields by the river look like the rangers come out and give them a close mowing every week. Perhaps there might be a wee too many Bison in the park now.