Yellowstone -Scenic

Yellowstone -Faithful

Old Faithful Geyser has been so FAITHFUL that it has been erupting in nearly the same fashion throughout the recorded history of Yellowstone Park: it erupts on an average of every 80 minutes and shoots out hot water up to 184 feet high into the air.



Old Faithful Geyser starts erupting

Yellowstone -Spring

Yellowstone -Animals

Yellowstone Bufflo (Bison)

The bison leads the parade

Fishing Birds

Salmon

Elk or Moose?

Buffalo Bill Dam

Buffala Bill Dam, Cody WY was completed in 1910.  It's 325 feet tall.  It was the tallest dam in the world at the time of its completion.

 

Deadwood, SD

 A small town named Deadwood is worth to stay a night. It has not only a little history but also a sleepless town; you may enjoy night shows, play table games or slot machines and etc. But the town start sleeping in the morning.

Mount Rushmore

After a whole day driving from Kansas, we arrived our first stop of 2009 summer driving tour: Mount. Rushmore - the sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The sculptures are more spectagular than I thought.

The surroundings are very pretty, walking trail, pine trees,

Medicine Wheel

Leaving Devils Tower and following Wyoming Highway 14A, we drove from the Bighorn basin into high elevation ranger land in the mid summer of 2009. It’s chilly in the summer here. We park more than a mile away and to walk to this National Historic Landmark –Medicine Wheel. Native American people hold ceremonies and commune with the Great Spirit to obtain strong spiritual medicine.

On the Way to Medicine Wheel 

the Destination

Things Grow in the Elevated Land

 

Devils Tower

It's a sunny afternoon in the summer of 2009 and we were on the way to visit this America's first national monument (Devils Tower, WY). Suddenly, the cloud came from nowhere and turned this sunny afternoon into a dark night.  A minute later, the sun light came through the cloud above the Devils Tower. The sun light was so bright and made the dark sky even darker. The cloud cleared away in no time after I took this picture. This Kodak moment seems so familiar; the aliens from outer space just landed on the earth.  

 





The Closer Look