Janet Jones is an amateur naturalist living in Cody, Wyoming.
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From the changes in the seasons to the changes in the thermal features, plus travel tips to make your trip to Yellowstone easier!
Yellowstone Travel
Yellowstone 101
Get to know the Geysers
GeyserWatch
Documenting Wonder
Field Journaling
The Greater Yellowstone Area
With so much to explore, Yellowstone is so vast that one lifetime is not enough to “see it all.”
Yellowstone Communities (5 gateway and 1 in yellowstone)
Seasons (2 commercial seasons)
Thermal Features (a conservative estmiate)
Recent Articles
I write about front country geysers and hot springs, share my photography and observe the changing seasons. I also share some travel tips for Yellowstone from a local’s viewpoint.
Phenology field journal example for crabapple trees 2019
It’s a typical spring here in the Cody/Yellowstone area – a few tremendously beautiful spring days and then another round of cold and wet weather. It’s spring in the west. During those few glorious days, the blooming trees here in town just unfolded into the warmth. I...
Around Here Mid-May 2019
It’s time for another round of Around Here – little bits and pieces of inspiration and thoughts I have. This post contains some affiliate links. That means if you follow them and make a purchase, I will receive a small portion of that purchase at no cost to you....
A few observations from opening days in Yellowstone
Happy Thermal Thursday! In this post, I’m sharing a few more of the smaller observations from the beginning of the 2019 summer season. Depression Geyser The amount of microbes growing in the overflow from Depression Geyser somewhat surprised me. I believe that’s...
SnowMoon Photography
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