Rain Showers moving in over Absaroka Mountains
Variety of wildflowers brighten the landscape
Henbane (Stinky Nightshade)
Used as medicine in light doses for rheumatism, asthma, and toothaches, etc.
in the middle ages.
High doses equals cardiac arress and death.
All plant parts are poisonous but was used in German Beer for flavoring - Pilsen.
Produces 10,000 to 500,000 seeds per plant.
Black-billed Magpies most prolific numbers surpassing all
US travel stops
Colors in the sunlight
Common Tansy
Dotted Gayfeather
Western Tanager male
Western Tanager female
all feeding on Canada Chokecherry with many other song birds...
American Robin juvenile
American Robin adult
Cedar Waxwing
Chokecherry leaves already turning color
Wandering Glider Dragonfly
Desert Evening Primrose
Common Sunflower
Common Wooly Sunflower
Twin White-tailed Deer fawns and doe
Fawns sunning
Mule Deer doe and twins wandering the neighborhood
Doe goes over, fawns crawl under
Red Squirrels are everywhere
Curly-cup Gumweed
Common Raven lives up to it's name
Chipping Sparrow
Dusky Grouse wanders into town
Common Merganser hen and brood on the Yellowstone River
The Sacajawea Park Osprey chicks are now full grown,
returning to the nest every night and food begging each morning.
Parents bring in fish and they rip it apart, sometimes sharing
Osprey juvenile banded on both legs
As juvenile osprey expand and explore their territory, they encounter a lot of attention from the
Magpies and Crows.
The aggressive harrassing doesn't seem to phase them.
Daily flights are getting longer and farther from the nest
Possibly two of the birds that Noah released from the Ark...
Because a double rainbow appeared over our RV Park
Fulfilling God's promise to never again cover the earth with a flood.
We are lengthing our stay here to be by Ty's brother Daryl as he goes through chemotherapy for lymphoma. Your prayers are appreciated as he is doing quite well.
Love ❤️ & Prayers 🙏
Ty & Ida Baumann
