Rocky Mountain Cemetery on a Hillside in Montana And a Couple of Springtime Critters.

Hi people, we had a foot of nice fluffy snow last weekend so I brought out the old large format camera for some old fashioned black and white pictures or Mill Creek, Shorthill Cemetery, and Paradise Valley, Montana. A little color is also tossed in for good measure of springtime animals of Yellowstone and more landscapes of Montana.

Shorthill Cemetery

Emigrant Peak

The snow may be coming but the spring is coming as you can see with my animal pics below.

Ground Squirrel catching up on his munching after another long winter

Same giant black bear I photographed last year at this time. He is the big guy that hibernates in an old fumarole and then wakes up eats grass and slaughter like ten baby elks born nearby. Thus the giant size!

Very pretty killdeer back for summer

Williamson's Sapsucker with tree buds in Spring

Williamson's Sapsucker

The Absaroka Mountains in Paradise Valley, Montana

Mill Creek

Now back to the glory of the Montana Landscapes and Shorthill Cemetery

This is a tombstone of someone from the Shorthill family whom the cemetery is named after

Mill Creek

Interesting garage going up the Old Emigrant Road

The Springtime Commute Through Yellowstone National Park

Hi folks, the blog Today will highlight my commute through the Yellowstone National Park from Mammoth Hot Springs to the Northeast Entrance. This area near Cook City, I like to call the end of the world as the road ends here. I view many wonderful things on this daily ride and although some of the animals are quite a bit far off, I think you will get the drift of my attempt at illustrating what I see.

The way to work started out sort of bleak but in no time at all I was rewarded with a parade of buffalo

This beast was near Dome Geyser and made the young bulls look pretty wimpy by comparison

The Yellowstone River

The Yellowstone river seen from a moss laden overhang

This buffalo carcass seen from a distance had a coyote perviously eating on it the first time I went by.

Then a wolf was there on my return trip

The Blacktail wolf pack 

Another member of the Blacktail wolf pack

One of the many Kettles made from the retreating glaciers in the park

Some male buffalos were very frisky this day and many of them were battling it out.