More Yellowstone

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God, I'm so far behind on these. Something about driving 200 miles a day takes away my time to post pictures. These are still from Tuesday. This waterfall is The Lower Falls of The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.



More of the Canyon, from Artist's Point.


This was the first place we encountered annoyingly crowded conditions. Can you blame people, though?


I'm starting to forget what these places are called. It's pretty though, right? I think we saw bison here.


Oh, hey! There's one in a dust wallow. They roll around on their backs in the dust. Very cute for a massive animal.


Hooray! Our first stinking sulfur hot springs. It looked so alive, and yet it caused the death of all the plant life around it.


Boiling sulfurous water. Coooooool!


These swallows didn't seem to mind the boiling cauldron of stinking death below them.


Then we encountered the considerably more attractive Yellowstone Lake. Still, more of the 300 deaths in the park occurred here than anywhere else. Apparently it has spots that are cold enough to kill you, as well as spots that are hot enough to kill you. There are pretty wildflowers growing near it.


Such as this aster.


I continue to be enamored of the orange lichen.


A raven perched nearby and yelled at us.


And some rocks needed to be put on top of one another.


Elsewhere, evidence of the 1988 fire stretched across the horizon.


On our way out of the park we saw the smoke from the Gunbarrel fire.


Yikes.


Outside of the park, toward Cody, we pulled over to watch ospreys at their nest.