It was a cold and dreary day in June!

Well..it's June 8th, snowing and dreary!...and we had a ball. We went to the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park for lunch. It is the most gorgeous old place, but some rooms don't have bathrooms and there is no TV, Internet....well you get the picture! I think it might be a great place to get away and have a "Dirty Dancing" kind of summer. Woody loves the old yellow bus that the Inn uses to take people around.

Old Faithful was a bit more impressive today because of the significant rain and snow we've had the past few weeks. Apparently Old Faithful shoots higher when it's been wetter. I was more impressed with Castle Geyser which is the one you see here.

My friend the bison was chewing his cud and resting in the cold. All the animals were hunkered down in the snow and rain we were getting intermittantly. The most fun were three elk grazing with a buffalo just walking by! One got a bit skittish, but the rest just ignored him.

We were driving home on a winding, little road by the Madison River when we met our little friend here head on! Mr. Coyote was out for a late afternoon walk and decided the road was better than the forest. We continue to adore the area, the animals and the little town of West Yellowstone.

This coming weekend is the Centennial of West Yellowstone...just wait for the pictures! http://www.visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=17001&SiteID=1 June 11, 1908 was the first time the Union Pacific train stopped at West Yellowstone.

New Critters in Big Sky, MT

You can not believe the animals we shot today! The longhorn sheep are incredible. They were on our way to Big Sky, Montana. On the way back to West Yellowstone, we saw the coyote. It's hard to see but he (or maybe she) has a raven in his mouth! He pounced in the scrub and came up with his dinner! We also saw a Bald Eagle soaring over a field until a hawk chased him off. The pictures of the eagle are too grainy, etc to upload here so we'll have to keep looking for one up a bit closer. You can not imagine how beautiful this entire area is...we remain amazed daily at how gorgeous the views are. I could truly say that this is the most beautiful place I've been in a lot of years!! We like this every bit as much as the beach...although there is snow in the forecast for tonight..hopefully at the higher elevations!

Big Sky http://www.bigskychamber.com/ is mid way between Bozeman, MT and West Yellowstone, MT. The ski lodge is fabulous and the area has beautiful houses and even more beautiful prices! It must be fun to be rich! Didn't see an RV park anywhere!

Last night we went to see Oklahoma! at the Playmill Theater http://www.playmill.com/ in West Yellowstone. It is a delightful little summer stock theater...the stars were mostly college students but we were royally entertained! They have two more plays this summer so I'm sure we'll go! We ate at the Outpost Restaurant and had lake trout...tasted a lot like salmon...hmmmm. I guess we'll look up lake trout and see what it looks like!

Work is fun...there aren't too many people just yet...so I hope that it picks up as it gets warmer. I'm actually thinking about doing a bit of knitting late in the evening. I'm sure around the 4th of July it will be so busy we can't think! We actually walked around the town on Sunday and had so much fun talking with some of our neighbors. We also had breakfast at Campfire which is a little restaurant on the Madison River...the whitewater was incredible and there were fly fisherman everywhere.

Still doing a bit of work in between the photography and work at Buffalo Trading Company! Hawaii is wrapping up and I'm heading to Overland Park, KS to do a little work with Menorah. With gas over $4 a gallon, we need all the work we can get!!

Hello to all our buds in the Liars Club...and to all our friends in the Nashville area!!

Miss you all!

Love, Woody and Pat