We just returned from a trip out West a couple weeks ago. We were away for 15 days. We visited 5 national parks. We took 4200 pictures. I have been working on a post about the trip practically since we got back. It is proving harder to write and longer than I expected. I also wanted to include pictures, which means that we need to sort them out and match them up with the appropriate parts of the trip. We're still working on that. Since the post was getting so long I decided to break it up. Here is part I.
My husband likes lists. Thus we had several of them going during the trip. One of them included our running tally of the animals we had seen while hiking, driving, walking throughout the trip.
These included:
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| Damselflies |
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| Lizards |
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| Dragonflies |
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| Ravens | |
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| Angus cattle (ok, that's not so different from home) |
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| Marmots |
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| A moose cow |
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| Chipmunk or ground squirrel...not sure which |
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| Bison (in the front yard of the Yellowstone Lake Inn, no less) |
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| Bighorn sheep ewes and lambs |
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| Elk |
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| Black bear (this isn't the best picture, but we were driving by literally about 2 feet away and I had to be quick) |
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| Pronghorn antelope |
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| More elk (this was a herd of mamas and babies just hanging out in the
field near the Roosevelt Arch as we drove out of Yellowstone...next to the pronghorns) |
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| Mountain goats (in the road as we drove the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier National Park) |
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| Bighorn sheep |
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| More goats (at Logan Pass in Glacier N.P.) |
There were others as well: magpies, various water birds, ground squirrels, chipmunks, wood ducks
(mama and babies) and I'm probably missing a few. The variety of Creation is astounding, as we were reminded every time we turned around. More pictures to follow.
