Observations of Marmot Cave Geyser | Aug 2018
On days in Yellowstone, I often will pick a thermal feature to sit by and observe for a short time. It helps to have a question to answer, and when I learned that Marmot Cave Geyser was seen in eruption on 7 Aug 2018, I wondered what the cycles seemed to be and to...
What is a naturalist?
Simply put, a naturalist is someone who studies nature. If you have a bird feeder that you watch and fill with seed, then you’re a naturalist. If you fish and pay attention to the hatches while fishing, then you’re a naturalist. If you have a garden you tend – paying...
New thermal feature Near Old Faithful
I hesitated in publishing this post simply because of all the drama that often surrounds any change seen in Yellowstone. Now that people better understand that Yellowstone actually is a volcano, the news of a new thermal feature of increased activity often brings on...
Phenology Report Mid August 2018
This morning as the world began to lighten, I looked out the window. While sipping my morning cup of tea and welcoming the day, I couldn’t decide if it would dawn clear or cloudy. Then the orange circle of the sun popped up through the trees confirming it’s another...
Happy Moth Week!
In honor of moth week, I’ve put up a moth page in the species accounts section of this site. This post contains affiliate links. That means that if you follow a link and make a purchase, I receive a smallportion of that purchase at no extra cost to you. A few years...
West Thumb Geyser Basin Update Mid May 2018
Change is normal in Yellowstone and there have been changes over at West Thumb Geyser Basin. I got a chance to visit earlier this month on the 15th to see what might be happening. An early report on Facebook showed photos of Abyss Pool and Black Pool both looking...
West Thumb Geyser Basin Observations fall 2017
Yellowstone’s East Gate is set to open tomorrow morning and there are lots of interesting changes mentioned in reports I’m itching to see in person. But in today’s post, I want to share with you a couple of smaller observations of changes seen at West Thumb Geyser...
Watching Steamboat Geyser
Is Steamboat Geyser entering an active phase? That’s the question many are asking and in this in-depth post, we’ll take a closer look at Steamboat Geyser’s past behavior and learn from those who documented the behavior when it was regularly active. 35 Days 11 hours 9...
Sawmill Group: Where we last left them in 2017
One group of geysers and hot springs I’m curious about any changes seen is the Sawmill Group, over near Grand Geyser a little way beyond Old Faithful. The group that “normally” has either Sawmill Geyser in charge of the eruptions or Penta and Churn Geysers in charge...
Loving the Spring Snow!
It’s snowing again this morning and I love it. I know, most everyone is really tired of the snow, but honestly, I think these last snows of winter are as magical as the first ones. We have the “all’s well with the world” huge flakes coming down – you know, the same...
Bring more nature into your everyday life
The other morning my Mom shared with me a moment she took from her day to watch the Northern flickers at the Kestrel box that sits outside our house right outside some tinted windows upstairs that makes viewing fairly easy without them reacting to us. We had a pair...
Waiting for Spring
The other day while talking with a friend, she mentioned she’s looking forward to this spring. I understand that – ready to “get to the good stuff” – but this is precisely one reason I started a phenology journal. For so long it seemed that one moment it was spring...