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Slowly Re-entering Society

Hello all!
All I can say is, I wish every day in life had the shiney, new quality of a day of vacation. I know this to be a daily goal but have not quite gotten to that point!

I love taking abstracted views of texture and color. This is from the Canary Hot Spring at Mammonth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. I fell in love with the Hot Springs of Yellowstone above all others. The colors were out of this world, the textures created by the movement of water over algea was just phenominal. The smell of sulpher was a bit overwhelming at times though.
I had no idea. We had no idea.

It is just other worldly. Breath taking, beautiful, odd. On the morning these photos were taken we woke early, leaving our cabin to the hooting of two nearby owls. We had left aroun 6 in the morning driving through snow that did not touch the road but piled two inches deep to cover the trees and surrounding mountainside.

After the awesome drive up to the Mommoth Hot Springs, we hiked the Beaver Ponds Trails. On this hike we saw Moutain Bluebirds. Incredibly beautiful beings! I have never seen a bluebird before. I have read about attracting them and seen photos in magazines. They stopped us in or tracks. They are royal blue, and somewhat turquoise too. Scrumptious.

I drew some too! I must say, I was photographed drawing! I am now someone elses vacation memory! I will post my drawings later in the week.

I fell head over heels in love with Bison. Huge, gentle, fierce and majestic beings. We got a video clip of these babies mooing(?) to thier mom.
Later in the week we went to the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum, where I learned that it took the European Settlers 23 years to bring the Bison population to near extinction. 23 Years! The bulk of the drive was to obtain the skins, not to feed the masses! Ouch.
This museum was quite good! We checked out the Natural History and Plains Indian Sections of the museum. Well worth checking out.
Cody also has an awesome yarn and needlepoint store but thier web site pales in comparison. The women who ran the place were inspired and commited and helped me to fall in love with the city of Cody!

This photo was taken during our Slough Creek trail hike. It is difficult to find information about hiking Yellowstone, This trail was 20 miles long and left the boundaries of the park. We probably hiked about eight miles in total. It was gorgeous. We saw a few horse drawn carts, and many fly fisherfolk.
Yellowstone is huge and seemingly geared toward the driving public. Trails were beautiful and difficult to find out about.
We saw, Bison, Moutain Bluebirds, Prong Horned Sheep, Elk, Mule Deer, a Pika, a few spectacular waterfalls, Hot Springs, Geysers, The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. I could go on. It was awesome.

While visiting Jackson Hole we saw a showing of John Buck's artwork at the Center for the Arts. It doesn't seem he has a web site of his own. I am smitten by his work. The layering of imagery, the depth and how polished his presentation. Seeing his work over the web, like so much of our art, does it no justice. but click here to learn a little about him, here, here and here to see some images of his wood block prints.
He has made me rethink my approach to quilting The Man I am working on right now. His sculptures are incredible too! Please check him out!

Posted by Melly at September 25, 2005 09:15 PM