Looking for Bluebirds on South Fork
Starting a phenology journal is as simple as noting when you observe the firsts of the year. And the Mountain Bluebirds should show up in the greater Yellowstone area anytime in the next week or so. Each year you make notes of the firsts, you go back through and start...
Seeing Signs of Spring
They’re coming! The Mountain Bluebirds are on their way. It’s the surest sign of spring we all look for out here and an email list came through today saying they saw the first ones outside of Laramie. Next they should be seen in the Casper area and then the...
Where have all the rabbits gone?
11 Feb 2017 | Ever since the last few snow storms that moved through, the rabbits we would regularly see have all disappeared. In fact, the past few days, I continually look specifically for them and find none. Then last night while taking Rhad out (my corgi that’s...
Looking For Spring
The chinook winds are (still) blowing this morning as I write and the streets in town that were full of water yesterday are drying out. The winds have melted the 8″ or so we got from the last storm and are working on the snow left from December. Friends mentioned...
Giant Geyser Awakening?
Geyser Gazers in Yellowstone yesterday had a great kick off to 2017 with a Hot Period from Giant Geyser. They noticed Grotto Geyser was recovering from a “marathon” eruption – one that lasts a long time and drains the system enough to give Giant Geyser an opportunity...
Mastering the Art of Focus
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to...
2016 – My Year of YES
As the year winds down, I find myself in transition from this year’s word of YES to next year’s word of FLOW (more on that to come). I want to share how this process works simply because I encourage you to try finding a word to guide you. The depth of this practice...
How to be outside more
As you start to think about what you want your 2017 to look like, you might want to add in more time outside. Being outside is healthy for us on many levels. Connecting with nature has been proven to have multiple health and mental well being benefits. One of the...
Watching “N.O.T. Geyser” Grow at West Thumb
UPDATE: This thermal feature has a new nickname of "Waterfall Geyser" given due to the fact that numerous visitors when seeing this geyser in eruption commented about the waterfall of water from this geyser into Thumb Geyser's crater. This summer a new geyser broke...
Around Here – Late Nov 2016
Around here I’ve been quiet online because I’m happily buried in photos, observations, notes and research. This is my happy place and sometimes I just get lost there. There’s a piece I’m working on with details on the development of the new geyser over at West Thumb...
Trumpeter Swans – Fall 2016
Trumpeter Swans return to winter in Yellowstone every year. Back in the 70’s they were fairly rare to see in the summer as they are now, but I do remember my ‘extra grandmother’ (my grandfather’s first cousin) being so excited to get a few photos of a pair that nested...
Letter From Home: The Huntley Horn
I’m proud to announce the arrival of another book in the Etsy Shop: Letters from Home: The Huntley Horn 1944-1946 compiled and edited by Margie Raben Jones. You can now own a small part of Wyoming history from World War II (that also includes some of my family...