For many years now, it’s been our tradition to spend New Year’s Eve at the Buffalo Ranch in the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park. George teaches an annual class for the Yellowstone Forever Institute called “New Year’s Wildlife...
It has been 7 days since our sweet Jasper left us. Jasper, the 13 year-old Labrador—”our first child”—went with the angels in the most peaceful way last week with all of us at his side. There is now a hole in this house, and on our morning walks. Every...
Sometimes the elemental things can stop you in your tracks, and as far as mud goes, it can do it in a few different ways! Despite the frost and sub-freezing temps, signs of warmer-days-gone-bye are still with us: a snapshot from this morning’s a walk with the...
We love the sights and sounds of Mammoth Hot Springs during the elk rut. This was shot in the wee hours, and is a tad dark. But turn up the sound! We love the bugling of course, but the sound of calves and cows calling to each other, and the sound of their hooves on...
There are things that are ephemeral and those that are eternal; the fleeting ripples of a rising trout or the momentary flavor of ripe whortleberries on the tongue, the dull thud of boulders rolling in a stream swollen with snowmelt, or—in the case of the events of...
When there are dragons to be slain, monsters to defeat and ruffians to subdue—enter the sword-bearing boy! Oh, but first, dad has to create his Excalibur— from the fibers of a stout 2×4. With the outline of the blade rendered in simple Sharpie marker, Pappa, aka...
