by Jenny Golding | Jan 3, 2018 | Adventures, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
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...
by George Bumann | Nov 18, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
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...
by George Bumann | Oct 20, 2017 | Nature, Yellowstone Life
And the seasons roll on… the sun makes its inexorable journey across the horizon and we do our best to recognize its travels. The “Sunrise Project” is one that was done at our first home in ‘inner city’ Gardiner several years ago—in...
by George Bumann | Oct 9, 2017 | Lifestyle, Nature, Yellowstone Life
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...
by George Bumann | Sep 11, 2017 | Adventures, Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
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...
by George Bumann | Aug 28, 2017 | Family, Lifestyle, Yellowstone Life
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...
