Yellowstone Memories
As we drove through Yellowstone today to get to our home base this week in Silver Gate, Montana, memories kept flooding in as we passed familiar landmarks. Regularly Henry or I would remark that we remembered seeing a bear there or that was where the bear with the damaged face was. Over the times we've been here, we've seen bears many places in Yellowstone and it felt like we were remembering them all. As we drove through Lamar Valley I remembered the fox den by the creek, the beaver that posed so nicely for me, the many wolf sightings. We haven't been over to the area where the coyote den was yet, but I know I'll think about all the times on the 2007 trip that I stopped to photograph that family.
Today we spent the first part of the day in the Grand Tetons, but smoke from the fires early in the day left the air too hazy for good photographs. I did spend time by the marsh of the Elk Refuge trying to identify a particularly pretty green bird. I know what I think it was - a female orchard oriole, but they aren't supposed to be here. When I had my camera out it never gave me a good enough look-see to photograph it. We left the Teton area mid afternoon and enjoyed a leisurely drive through the park arriving at our hotel just as it got dark.
It will be an early morning tomorrow. No internet at the hotel, so I'm posting this at Canyon on Monday.
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