The Smoky Mountains live up to their name
Last week (mid-March), Marcy and I enjoyed the opportunity to host an aspiring photographer on a photoshoot. We didn’t have to think long about a destination, and despite this being the national-park-road-congesting spring break season, we headed to Cades Cove. As it turned out, the traffic was not too bad, at least at first. We […]
Winter in Yellowstone National Park
Bearly Awake I figured it to be common wisdom that black bears entered winter hibernation and slept soundly until warm weather. However, during our late January-early February trip to Yellowstone National Park, we found a bear den with occupants active in the sunny but single-digit weather. During our visit, our daily routine consisted of cruising […]
Winter in Yellowstone National Park
The Cycle of Life You have probably all seen “Yellowstone National Park in winter” videos or pictures. Until a couple of years ago, I just could not imagine visiting here during January/February cold and snowy conditions, but we did, and now we are hooked on the beauty of the season, and we have enjoyed the […]
Grand Teton National Park Winter Shoot 2022
Kelly Warm Spring In Grand Teton National Park, Kelly Warm Spring is located along East Upper Gros Ventre Road about a quarter-mile from East Boundary Road. The very short story behind KWS begins in 1925 when the area was known as Mud Spring. During that year, a huge landslide (the largest in U.S. history) […]
Oh, the dogs you’ll meet
Traveling north of sixty … “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.” Milan Kundera I enjoyed interacting with the farm […]
pulse of the palouse
Traveling north of 60 … “Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. … So, for ten days, Daniel and his friends ate pulse and drank water while all the other servants ate the king’s meat.” Daniel 1:12 Although Whitman County, Washington is […]
