[jules' pics] Colour #2

1. Blue pools at Norris Basin
2,3,4,5. Stuffs near Old Faithful Basin.
6. Midway Geyser Basin

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/12/2013 11:00:00 AM

[jules' pics] Colour

Distinctive green of north Norris basin
Minute geyser orange (south Norris Basin)
Around the hot pools it mostly seemed to be yellow flowers. I'm not qualified to comment on how many different species.
The clear blue pool surrounded by pristine white was new since 6 monthe before when we last visited. Makes me want to live rather nearer Yellowstone!
West Thumb green and blue
Mammoth Terraces blue and orange

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/11/2013 10:00:00 AM

[jules' pics] B&W

Both sorts of pixels in Yellowstone - B&W and colour - here are some black and white ones.

Crispy white Mammoth Terraces
Cloudy castle geyser (tiny boardwalking peoples in background)
Trying to lead the inlaws to the wolves (no bodies to ship back if they be et!) Scopers scoping for wolves. No one saw the wolf and so the inlaws survived another day.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/10/2013 10:00:00 AM

A Rose by any other name...

...would probably still write rubbish in the Daily Wail.

As some of you noticed, the PCC issued this statement (concerning the article I blogged about here) while I was away hunting bears and geysers and things. Complaining to the PCC was jules' idea, and turned out to be a very simple process, requiring little more than reading a couple of web pages (to work out whether/how the code of conduct might have been breached) and filling in a web form. The Mail quickly offered me the right of reply, or the alternative of a reasonably-worded correction, and I plumped for the latter.  It was all much easier, I suspect, than trying to approach either Rose or the newspaper directly (mud wrestling with pigs comes to mind).

[jules' pics] Sheep n Cows

The sheep weren't getting much attention as all the proper photographers were focussed on a tired nearby red fox (when the puppies finally fell asleep, she tiptoed out of her den for a nap in the grass.). I didn't believe the sheep were bighorns since the ones we saw previously (in the South Dakota Badlands) with short dark brown coats. Only when I looked at the photos did I notice that these were starting to moult into those same smart summer coats. The bison were everywhere. My guess is that this is because of the plentiful fresh green spring grass. Later in the year it gets very dry so perhaps they have to move cluster into the big valleys. Or is it that the bulls round them up?

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/09/2013 12:30:00 PM

[jules' pics] sulphur running

We did a couple of cold early morning runs near Old Faithful to see how slowly we really run at high altitude (answer: v slowly). The geysers and springs are moodily foggy at that time of day. I mostly held my breath as I ran through the clouds. That and all the stopping to take pics probably didn't aid my speed, but we still somehow managed to get back in time for breakfast.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/08/2013 10:00:00 PM

[jules' pics] Mammoth!

Mammoth is a village in the north of Yellowstone Park. Once when we were there we saw some advertising proudly stating that all the indigenous species are living in Yellowstone. So, ever since then we have been keeping our eyes peeled. We were very lucky on our last visit. The animals seem more visible in the spring. Many were staked out by rangers and photographers which made them hard to miss.
And this time were really lucky to see one of the rarer indigenous species: a mammoth! All those photographers actually didn't notice the mammoth. They were too focussed on something so much more mundane - just a bear and two cute cubs:

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/08/2013 12:00:00 PM

[jules' pics] mudpots

Not so grand, or colourful, but I could watch blubbeling mudpots all day.
The best one last... mid-explosion.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/07/2013 07:45:00 PM

[jules' pics] Grand Prismatic

While we're doing grand (bigger is better after all), here's Grand Prismatic spring, which is a large colourful puddle. In order to see it all you have to climb an adjacent hill (preferably on a hot day to minimise the water vapour), or fly overhead. We absolutely didn't want to kill the inlaws (sending bodies airfreight is very expensive!), so we stuck to the local boardwalks.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/05/2013 06:00:00 PM

[jules' pics] Grand Geyser

Once they'd seen Old Faithful the inlaws thought they'd done geysers. So they were less than impressed when we took them out at dusk to sit on a cold hard wooden bench for 30 minutes, in order to wait for another. Little did they realise, but Grand Geyser is well worth the wait!
The eruption lasted around 10 minutes and we saw two distinct phases. First the massive shooting high into the sky bit. It's big. See how tiny the very tall trees seem by comparison.
Then the jet on the left set going, and a rainbow formed in the evening light, while the main part was a little less vigorous.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/04/2013 07:55:00 PM