How to describe this place? This trip?

I've dreaded writing this post.  Not because I don't want to write it.  Rather, because I cannot find words adequate enough to describe both the location or the trip itself.

There are not words big enough to describe Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park.  The words simply do not exist.  Photos will have to do.  With captions when helpful.

We began in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

As we set out to see both Teton & Yellowstone National Park on the first day we saw this bull moose within the elk refuge right in Jackson.  We hadn't even been in the car for five minutes.

And the elk.  In full rutting season.  At dawn.  Breathtaking.  For reals.

The Aspens were at their peak.

Lamar River Valley.  Probably my favorite place in Yellowstone.

Properly called bison.  We started calling them buffalitos.  Kinda in the voice like Eddie Murphy uses in that movie where he's dressed like a grandmother and claps his/her hand repeatedly while sort of chanting "Hercules!"  That's what I'd do whenever I saw bison . . . (hands clapping) "buffalito! buffalito!"



Razor had done his research and knew where wolves had been spotted in the days before we arrived.  The guy in the car is a world famous wolf biologist that was using the radio to listen for the collared wolves.  Razor was in this spot before he was.  And. We. Saw. Wolves.  . . . And. Heard. Them. Howl.  ::chills:: 



Buffalito!  Buffalito!  Certainly you may cross the road!

Yellowstone was very quiet as winter was knocking on the door and tourist season was over.  This PBS camera guy stopped to look at exactly what we were already.

Bald eagle

Park rangers and a bear biologist heading out to study an overnight grizzly bear that had died not far from the road.

The coyotes were waiting in the wings to take a look at the dead bear as well.  Oh, ho hum.  And another bald eagle too.

Razor and I knew there was a live web cam at Old Faithful so we timed it so we'd be there when the girls got home from school and they could see us jumping around and acting like fools in front of Old Faithful.

Thar she blows!

Amazing hydro-thermal activity in this place.

Trumpeter swans

And as big . . . .

and as grand as this place is . . . .

there was so much beauty in the small stuff as well.

wolf tracks along the river bank

See what I mean??  No words big enough.  This picture doesn't even do the place justice.

-dana