February 2011

One Last Breath
Bozeman, Montana
2011

I don’t know if we got the full 20 inches of snow that was predicted in yesterday’s storm, but it was well over a foot. A lot of stuff that was visible before is buried now.

Basic Ingredients
Bozeman, Montana
2011

So what can you make with an egg and an avocado?

Making Tracks
Yellowstone National Park
2011

I’m feeling better about winter today so can post another snow photo. Good thing my attitude has come around as they’re predicting up to 20 inches for elevations above 5,000 feet tomorrow–and our house sits at 6,200 feet.

Guy Reading a Book #4
Pt. Reyes, California
2011

We have heavy snow coming down right now after a night of fierce winds, so this photo of a warm sunny day from a trip that is but a distant memory (i.e., from way back in early January), seems appealing. This is the time of year when winter begins to be quite irritating at times around here. But, it could be worse; I could live in the south or east where they’ve really been getting hammered this week.

Wind Sculpture
Yellowstone National Park
2011

This sculpted snow is actually the result of both wind and heat from Mammoth Hot Springs. The warm ground produced a little melting, creating some furrows in the snow and the wind did the rest.

Palette Spring #3
Yellowstone National Park
2011

The edge of the active area at Palette Spring, showing what is sacrificed (i.e., trees) in order to create the other-worldly look of the spring’s thermal features.

Palette Spring #2
Yellowstone National Park
2011

Another view of Palette Spring, this one not quite so ethereal, but impressive nonetheless I think.

Palette Spring
Yellowstone National Park
2011

One of my favorite thermal features on the terrace at the Mammoth Hot Springs. The lighting in this one reminds me of the ethereal lighting you see in some of Bierstadt’s paintings.

A couple of folks commented that the Bob Dylan music from a recent post keeps playing automatically whenever they open the POTD page. That is odd since the html code for the embedded video had the auto play feature set to off. Still, music that plays automatically is one of my pet peeves about web sites, so I took the video off the page. I’ll also quit using videos from Metacafe (the source of the Dylan video) and stick with Youtube videos which never seem to have that problem. My apologies to anyone else who also experienced an overdose of Subterranean Homesick Blues.