Sorry, I forgot these. Maybe I will never stop posting. We'll just have to wait and see.

So this is the last posting for our 2015 trip up the Eastern Slope of the Rockies. It was a wonderful trip. We took over 5000 pictures – over 30 gigs total – and we still keep forgetting some of the details. We did this blog to help us share the trip with friends, but I think it will also serve to help us remember. I think we’ve posted about 160 pictures here.

Mike with wings – Rocky Mountain National Park

Rolling countryside south of Buffalo, Wyoming

Cassin’s Finch – Favorite bird of the trip

Female Mountain Blue Bird – Second favorite bird of the trip

Us in the snow

Walking in the Absaroka Mountains, Shoshone National Forest

Running Eagle Falls – Glacier National Park (yes that is a river coming out of the rock)

Dennis on the trail somewhere

Sunrise at St Mary Campground, Glacier National Park

Mike taking pictures of a Loon on Bow Lake in Banff National Park

Mike in the Snow

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Thanks, and hope you have enjoyed this too,

Dennis and Mike

One of the most unusual characteristics of this trip was that we followed Spring most of the way North. We saw Indian Paint Brushes (of more colors than we believed) almost everywhere on our way North. On our way back, Spring was over and we just got warmer and then hot.

But anyway, here are some pictures of the wild variety of flowers we saw – most of which we did not identify. 

And at long last, Yellowstone National Park: We were on the road for 4½ weeks before we got to Yellowstone. We had had a great time. We had seen it all and we were tired. We almost turned towards home without seeing Yellowstone. Just like everything else on this trip, it was amazing.

The Grand Tetons at sunrise - from an overlook at Yellowstone Lake.

Yellowstone Lake.

Cassin’s Finch.

Spotted Sandpiper.

Bison.

Grizzly.

Cactus – They are everywhere that there are cowboys.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.

Dennis at the Yellowstone River Falls.

Mike at the Virginia Cascade of the Gibbon River.

Castle Geyser.

Mike at the Double Goggle Geyser.

Dennis at the headwaters of the Firehole River.

And Old Faithful. This was at the beginning of its eruption. We had been walking in the geyser field for about an hour when OF began to blow, and we had seen a lot of bubbling and one other eruption. This was the biggest and the best. No wonder it’s famous.

From here we are turning towards home. We may post some more before we get home, and we may post some more summary posts, like birds or flowers etc. after we are home.

Love to you all. See you soon,

Mike and Dennis

We are now at Yellowstone National Park. We got to Cody, Wyoming last Friday after a two day drive down from Glacier National Park. We are making two posts today: one from our last day in Glacier and the other from our travels to and at Cody.

These are Photos from the travel to Cody:

An American Dipper at Many Pines Campground.

Our Campsite at Many Pines – another fine National Forest campground.

Cloud and rock formations along highway 120 north of Cody.

A Peregrine Falcon and a Great Horned Owl – in Cody

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West. (Look it up on the web.) Although we expected this might be overrated, it is not. It was truly worth the time and effort to visit: Five separate collections in separate wings, it is a very nice collection of art, artifacts, history, and a little mythology.