Smokey Livingston Montana

With fires in all directions and the heat and drought, the skies have had an interesting effect on the sunrises and sunsets.  Thankfully the fires are many miles away but the smoke is drifting around the mountains and hanging in the valleys.  It can still cause some breathing problems and the photos don't always turn out the way you would like.  But God is good and we are safe and pray for those who are in the path of these disastrous flames.

Our second trip south to Yellowstone National Park
Many Elk were grazing nearby - if you enlarge this you will see a 
tracking collar on the center left cow.

Yellowstone Lake as seen from Fishing Bridge area

Violet-green Swallows nesting on old abandonded garage

Audubon's Warbler - western Yellow-rumped

White-crowned Sparrow chasing Mayflies

Got one,  Yum!

Yellowstone River gorge from high above

Trumpeter Swans on the Yellowstone River in a calm section

Great to see another Clark's Nutcracker

Harebell

California Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Rugged terraine near Bridger Mountains

Golden Eagle flying over the steep cliffs

Mule Deer Fawn crosses the road

Time to bounce and get out of here

One of the many jigsaw puzzles we worked on in the hot afternoons

Ty & Daryl went once a week to trout fish on the Yellowstone River
This is Ty's 17 inch  Rainbow Trout prize.

White-tailed Deer are wandering near the RV Park
Two bucks in velvet.

This buck seems to like being photographed,  Could be a prize rack?

Intermediate phase Swanson's Hawk

Smoke Shrouded Sunrise

Lawncare crew - White-tailed fawns

Someone's curious, "who are you?"

Just taking a rest - best thing to do on a hot day.

Time is moving along and soon we will be heading south to Texas.
Looking for western birds and beautiful scenery as we avoid fires, bad weather and
flash floods.  Wherever we go, we see God's creation everywhere.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann

Livingston Montana and Yellowstone NP

 

We are half way through our stay here already.  Time is flying by.  We are enjoying our time with Ty's brother Daryl and his wife Vicki.  They live only one mile from Osen's RV Park where we are staying.  This is the view looking to the south of our site.  

We have had some hot days but the mornings have been beautiful.  Our days are spent visiting, cooking, eating, playing games, taking rides to beautiful sites in all directions and also putting a jigsaw puzzle together.

Ty & Daryl have been working on a few projects together on the RV and on their house.  All in all a great time to be together including going to Mountain Bible Church 10 miles south in Paradise Valley.

Black-billed Magpie, very common in Livingston

Baby Magpie, could be first day out of the nest

Grackle collects worms to take back to the nest

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Mountain Chickdee

House Finch

Wood Duck at Sacajawea Park

Mallard Duckling

Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone, we were exiting headed east to Beartooth Pass

Bison with calf at Lamar Valley

Large herds of Bison graze in Lamar Valley

People scoping the far hillside for the Wolves, there were 8 pups playing early in the morning.

Clark's Nutcracker

Abasorka Range streches from Yellowstone to Beartooth Pass

Cirque at the nearly 12,000 ft elevation

Nelson's Longspur - alpine flower above treeline

American Pipit

Tricolored Bumble Bee

White Mountain-Avens

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Antelope Ground Squirrel

What a beggar!  He has the visiters trained well.

Red-shafted Flicker female

Red-shafted Flicker male

White-tailed Deer and new born fawn

Audubon's Warbler (western Yellow-rumped)

Mountain Bluebird

Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann