May 29, 2017

Today Leighton woke me up at O’dark thirty. He wanted to be on the shores of Jenny Lake before sunrise. We encounter a herd of elk crossing the road but we made it. Did I mention that was where we saw the grizzly yesterday. We had a short hike to the animal trail we took down to the lake. It was cold and with Leighton being a quiet man I had to make my own noises to keep bears away. At least we were both armed with bear spray. We ventured down another dirt road and finally got a ruffed grouse, cousin to the prairie chicken. Leighton is outside the cabin as I type trying to decide if he should take pictures of the bison herd with babies or the coyote hunting ground squirrels. I didn’t even mention our 5 mile geyser hike today. If Leighton comes in you might get pictures (I came in but was to tired to mess with the pictures).

Lake Jenny early morning.

Lake Jackson reflections.

Ruffed grouse – maybe.

Old Faithful.

Another geyser, another eruption.

Alien landscape.

Grotto geyser.

Giant geyser.

Layers within.

Solitary geyser.

Caught by surprise.

Grazing buck.

Still frozen lake.

Pretty canyon.

Look who came for dinner – just outside the house we are staying in.

Coyote hunting near the front yard.