Short Wyoming Trip and Mule Deer

A trip out looking for Mule Deer Bucks.

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This is our Jeep parked along the roadway.

In the following images you will see several

different buck (male ) Mule Deer.

This guy was a long way away,

he is only a two point but

notice how high and wide

his antlers are.

They come with big antlers

and

they come with small antlers.

Above

I think this is my area to look for women.

Below

Get off of my turf and leave.

Had to tuck in a photo of an old barn

"If a fellow isn't thankful

for what hes got,

he isn't likely to be thankful

for what he's going to get."
-unknown

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"When asked if my cup is half-full
or half-empty, my only reply

is that I am thankful I have a cup!"

-unknown

Old buildings, old trucks

These images were taken about thirty miles

west of our home.

It looks a little like one of

the plains states and not so much like

Northern Utah.

Lots of tall grass and rolling hills.

The difference is the mountains a few miles in

the background.

(above)An old Chevy truck, someday I will own one

of these. It will look much better, paint, glass and restored.

And it will run!

(below)

An old Ford truck, I would take one of these also ;)

Look Mom, No Neighbors!

(PS. I like my neighbors)

... and no grocery stores? No doctor?

No Dr Pepper?

No flushing toilet and no morning "HOT" showers?

Guess I will take what I have!

More wandering in the Mountains.

Not much green left anywhere but,

the snow is mostly gone for now.

Morning Cloak Butterfly

soaking the last bit of

warm out of the sun.

Snowshoe Hare all dressed in

white for the winter.

We were looking for Elk on this trip.

We found quite a few but not

long enough to get a photograph.

Just quick glimpses through the trees and brush.

Just a long enough look to go 'uha' and then they

were gone, running through the heavy timber.

Easy to hear, track and follow but tough to photograph.

elk, moose, cougar, snow, mountains, deer.

We just spent a couple of days

'wandering' in the woods.

We saw lots of animals and tracks.

We were looking for a spike bull elk -

never found him but tracked a couple.

We did see Moose, Elk, Mule Deer, Ruffed Grouse

various squirrels and birds.

We also found Cougar and Bobcat tracks in the snow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

'Life is a succession of lessons which

must be lived to be understood.'

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I've learned that the greater a person's sense of guilt,

the greater his need to cast blame on others.

Misc images, leaves, trees, mountains

"To look is one thing.

To see what you look at is another.

To understand what you see is a third.

To learn from what you understand is still something else.

But, to act on what you learn is all that really matters."

-Malcolm P. McNair

I missed most of the best fall colors this year.

It's not that I did not see them.

I just never got around to taking photos of them.

The Old...

I will do it tomorrow.

"But oh! may there never come the day,

When a child shall go to his dad and say,

What was a trolley car?"

-Robert S Wilson

Antelope Island - Great Salt Lake

This is from an August 1959 Reader's Digest

At the peak of its economy drive this spring,

the House of Representatives suddenly found

itself voting another $2,200.00 to hire an

extra House postal clerk.

The reason, according to Representative Wayne Hays

of Ohio, was that additional help was needed to handle

"all the mail coming in asking us to cut the

national budget."

Old barns, rain and fall

"The greatest discovery of my generation

is that human beings can alter their lives

by altering their attitudes of mind."
— William James

"Success is often achieved by moving

enthusiastically from failure to failure."
— James Arthur Ray

Return to Willard Peak

We had the first snow of the season the other day.

"Where the Wild Goats Live."

We only found two goats while we were there this time.
The wind was blowing and it was cold.
VERY COLD!
This old man choose not to hike far down the mountain
to get a closer photo and to find the rest of the group.

Wild Bonsai Tree

A short study in butterfly

Probably the last one of the season.

Just hatched in our trailer.

Had to warm in the sun before being able to fly away.

just think....

a birth certificate shows we were born,

a death certificate shows we died,

but photographs show we lived!

Mountain Goats - Willard Peak

"What lies behind us,
and what lies before us,
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Went on a short trip, not that far from home.

Drove up Willard Peak, stopped and looked around.

Low and behold, there were mountain goats.

Lost track of time for a while - Post -

Sorry, no thought this time... River Otter Elk

Elk

Elk

Female Elk

Elk

Elk

Elk

Elk

Madison River

Great Blue Heron

Osprey

Tetons - a different view

Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel

"A rocky moon"

Week Seventy Five - Pioneer Trek

Took and went with 300 or so youth

on a Pioneer Trek pulling handcarts.

Got just a small taste of what the real

Pioneers faced.

It was a life changing experience - beyond words...

Week Seventy Four - Birds

Week Seventy Three - Don't take my picture!

Week Seventy Two - Happy Artist

Week Seventy one - SwallowTail Butterfly

My Hard drive crashed...

lost a few images and now

I am trying to catch up...

Week Seventy - Flowers and Logan Canyon

It has been raining for several weeks,

today the sun was out for a while.

This caused mist and low clouds along

the mountains, floating

through the Douglas Fir trees.

Staying the Course

By BJ Gallagher
Our journey of life is about progress, not perfection.

It's not about doing one thing100% better -

it's a matter of doing 100 things,1% better each day.

Progress is evolutionarynot revolutionary,

and most days we measure our progressin inches,

not miles.
What matters mostis showing up for

your lifewhether you feel like itor not.
Ask yourself,"What two or three little things

can I do todaythat would move me forward?"
You'll be amazed at how much distanceyou

can coverby taking it in increments.
The little things add up;the inches turn to miles;

and we string together our effortslike so many pearls.

Before long,look what you have -a whole strand!
Ah... beautiful.

Week Sixty Nine - More Tetons

Red Wing Blackbird above with nest and eggs below.

Pair of Northern Shovelers

"My son,

a man will never learn all he needs

to know with just one experience.

Experiences must pile up, as boulders

do at the foot of the cliff of a man's life.

And as they pile up, each one will give him

insight into the others, giving him the time

he needs to evaluate and to think about them.

In that way only will a man learn the lessons

Wanken tanka (The Great Creator) would have

him learn from the experiences he chooses to give him."

-Blain M. Yorgason

Week Sixty Eight - Part Two - Tetons.

Have you ever wondered why they

put power poles in the forest?

We found out why today.....

scroll down.

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Enough to make you smile and say AHHH?

Sunset image taken by my wife Kathy
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Week Sixty Eight - Yellow Stone, Tetons !!!!!

We left home last Thursday morning (05-28-09) and will

leave for home next Monday late afternoon.

The following images are just a taste of what we are seeing and

doing in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons!

"I would like to lease or buy

the days that other people waste."

-Harley Brown

About now, my mother in law is saying;

"OH SPIT!"

Sorry mom.

The above image taken by my wife Kathy

"If a man will devote his time

to securing facts in an impartial,

objective way, his worries will usually

evaporate in light of knowledge."

HERBERT E. HAWKES