Family Vacation to Yellowstone

My husband Paul and I just finished a wonderful week long vacation visiting some of the country’s national parks and monuments with the rest of my family. We stopped off at Mount Rushmore and made a visit to Deadwood to see Wild Bill’s and Calamity Jane’s stomping ground. We then went to a ghost town in Montana, spent a few days going around Yellowstone National Park and finished the week off with a drive south to Salt Lake City to fly home. I am recharged and ready to get back to work. Many of the sights I saw will be incorporated into my future work.

I’m posting a few pictures from the trip with some notes and highlights beside them. I took over 600 photos but I promised my husband that I wouldn’t make him look through all of them. If you are as much of a nature lover as I am you really should plan a trip to Yellowstone if you haven’t already.

The first picture is Old Faithful an hour before sunset. I just love this picture, it has such a spiritual aspect and what trip to Yellowstone would be complete with out a trip to see Old Faithful so this is a great photo to start with.

We had seen a few single buffalo here and there around the park but no herd of buffalo until the second day. We got up early in the morning and found this herd grazing by the river on the east side of Yellowstone park.

The third picture was taken as we went into the spring area in the northern part of Yellowstone park. The color in the springs from the different kinds of minerals and algae was just outstanding. I thought that these tree trunks really made a statement of the vast landscape that some of the springs cover in the park.

The fourth picture is from the side of Canary Spring which was a ways down the path from the previous photo.

On the last day in Yellowstone we had stopped to watch some elk and were commenting on not having seen a prairie dog when one popped his head up out of a hole not 10 feet from where we were standing. Guess you never know what will be popping up in life.

In the airport on the way home we were sitting next to another nice family that had been to Yellowstone as well. I couldn't help but notice in compairison that most of their photos contained family members in front of the various sites and that most of my photos were of just the natural surroundings. It's not that I don't love my family, because I really do, I just love to gaze at what mother nature has created.