A Convertible Day!

Top down under bright blue skies we headed for Yellowstone Park this morning leaving Miss Emmi with Nat.  We are so fortunate to live as close as we do to the Park—unfortunately tis the season in Yellowstone, the season for the tourists that is.  The park was very crowded today and Michael thinks we won’t be going back until fall!

Leaving Mammoth we headed toward Tower Junction and ran into one huge tourist jam—had to be something big and it was:

See her cub against her rear leg?   People had stopped their vehicles right in the middle of the road and abandoned them to go take photos—was making the rangers right cranky!

After that excitement we headed on toward Cooke City seeing lots of this: and these guys, hundreds of these guys: Those little brown dots are buffalo.  For some strange reason I left my good camera at home today and only had the one I carry in my purse all the time.  It too is a Canon but doesn’t have the best of zooms.

We stopped for lunch beside the Lamar River and continued on to Cooke City.  Turned around coming back the same way and in almost the exact same spot we ran into another tourist jam and cranky rangers.  The people and cars were everywhere so I took my seat belt off and knelt in the seat so I could take photos as Michael tried to navigate the people and cars—as we slowly passed a female ranger in a suburban—she yelled at me, “seatbelt, seatbelt.”  Yes ma-am as soon as I get my photos taken!!!

How cool is that, she had two cubs.  Both mama bears were black bears. 

I love Yellowstone Park and yes, we do see bears right here at home frequently in the summer but there is just something about the park!!! 

This guy hadn’t lost all his winter coat but was starting a nice set of antlers covered in velvet.

We had a great day!  Stopped at Nat’s to retrieve Emmi and had pizza supper with him.  Just a beautiful Sunday!