Yellowstone

Springtime in Yellowstone is glorious. Lush green meadows with the occasional patch of snow in nooks and crannies. Spring flowers everywhere. And babies. We saw a pair of black bear cubs gamboling in an alpine meadow while mama bear stretched out in the sun. We even saw a bald eagle feeding an eaglet in a nest of sticks perched atop a burnt-out lodgepole pine.

The days of feeding the animals by hand are long gone. It's illegal to come closer than 100 yards to a bear, and there were "no stopping, no slowing down, no pedestrians" signs barring anybody from getting closer than 200 yards from the nesting eagle, so I wasn't able to get any photos of them. There were no such restrictions on the hot springs, though.


Mammoth Hot Springs -- what look like ice formations are actually mineral
deposits from the steam vents and hot springs that spill down the hillside.


A particularly colorful mineral deposit formation


peeps at Mammoth Hot Springs

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