Badgered Badger & other sights – April 25, 2010 – Yellowstone & Madison Valley

The most entertaining sighting of today actually occurred on the way home after leaving the Park. More on that later…

Today Mom and I traded places in the vans. I rode with Laura, the girls and Bridger in Laura’s van. We started off headed for Blacktail Lakes where there is a partially exposed bison […]

Yellowstone, April 24, 2010

It’s Dad’s Birthday! What did Dad want for his birthday? Well, a trip to Yellowstone National Park with his family, of course. So, today Mom, my sister Stacy, my niece Retta, my aunt Laura, her girls Elisha and Reannan, my son Bridger and myself as well as hounds Winter and Zigi, humored him by […]

Ah, the promise of spring…

The blossoms on my apricot tree — with an aroma as lovely as their appearance…

The first blooms in my yard — the blossoms on the choke cherry bushes…

Buds on my lilac bushes promise beauty in the weeks to come…

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Finding Refuge

The Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge is one of those places where I frequently seek refuge — some time to relax, enjoy watching and listening to wildlife, and just take it easy. On Saturday, my sister, her infant daughter, and I enjoyed doing just that.

We saw a few firsts-of-the-year for me, including a […]

Scarey “game” being played by Lolo kids

Yesterday evening I learned from my son, as he was telling me what he and his friends did with their free afternoon following an 11:30 dismissal from school to start Spring Break, that a pair of older boys in the neighborhood (perhaps middle school age) described and demonstrated the technique to play the “pass-out […]