YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK part 1

Some of the photos I took last summer in Yellowstone National Park.

  The great fire of 88.  The forest is starting to grow back but it still is strange to go through this whole forest with all these sticks and not much else.

One of the many buffalo's that call Yellowstone home.  He was out laying in the grass when we came upon him.  When ever an animal is spotted people stop and there gets to be quite the traffic jam.  You are told not to get to close to the animals.

One of the many shops they have here at Yellowstone

 

There seems to be water all through out the park weather its a lake, stream, river, or just a brook

 

 

 

 

There are over 500 geysers here in Yellowstone.  It is where most of the geysers in all the world are located.

 

 

 

Wyoming part 2

 

This is my son Kyle.   We went

 

to visited a park near by his house in Douglas.

The hills around this park are a beautiful color of red. Actually up against the green of the grass and trees its breath taking beautiful. Quite the show stopper.

This is part of the stream and it flows all through the park.

They have this beautiful natural bridge that completely goes over the bridge. You can follow the trail that goes overtop of it
When we were here a family with kids were playing the water on inner tubes. there are parts that get deep.

Here is my son again up on top of the natural arch over the river.

 

Here are a few more pictures of this beautiful park. Look at all this beautiful red rock.

 

How gorgeous is this?

This is my sons girlfriend Lily. She is as sweet as her name.  And we have come to love her.

Lily and Kyle

Smile

Got to love these two

part 1 Wyoming/Dakota

My recent Trip to Wyoming
    I recently flew on a trip to Wyoming to see my son Kyle. I was able To go to Yellow Stone National Park, as well as Mt.
Rushmore.  Here's some of the photos I took while there.

 

 

 

 

This was truly an amazing place to see, To take in the site and know how much time and work it took to create this.

 

 

 

 

This is Kyle my son and his girlfriend Lily.  He flew

me to Wyoming and took me to all these exciting places.

We both love history and to visit such an historic site was

beyond words.

 

  This display showed a little of the construction.

 

 

 

This is Crazy Horse Monument and is under construction

on privately held land in the black hills in Custer county

South Dakota.

 

 

 

Some of the artifacts in the museum.

 

My son Kyle, and I

 

 

Lily and I

 

 

 

  And this is what the monument will look like when completed.

 

 

Then we were once again on our way.

Devils Towers National Monument.  It was getting dark as we arrived here.

 

The Legend of Devils Tower

The Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Tower”) is sacred to several Native American Plains tribes, including the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Kiowa. Many Native American legends have been passed down through time, but this legend seems to be the most popular. One day, an Indian tribe was camped beside the river and seven small girls were playing at a distance. The region had a large bear population and a bear began to chase the girls. They ran back toward their village, but the bear was about to catch them. The girls jumped upon a rock about three feet high and began to pray to the rock, "Rock, take pity on us; Rock, save us." The rock heard the pleas of the young girls and began to elongate itself upwards, pushing them higher and higher out of reach of the bear. The bear clawed and jumped at the sides of the rock, and broke its claws and fell to the ground. The bear continued to jump at the rock until the girls were pushed up into the sky, where they are to this day in a group of seven little stars (the Pleiades). The marks of the bear claws are there yet. As one looks upon the tower and contemplates its uniqueness, it isn't hard to imagine this legend as fact.

 

 

Everything was closing up but, we took a few shots from the camera.

 

 

While here we ran across some Bison Commonly known as the American Buffalo.

 

It was a very good day.