Tag: WY

  • Buffalo Farmers Market

    Buffalo, WY, July 2025 Whenever I hear that a local town has a farmers’ market I can’t resist going. John has the advantage of me sending him pictures of the food and asking him if he’d like any and not having to go. In Buffalo, Wyoming the farmers market is held every Wednesday between 5…

  • Mountain Meadow Wool Mill

    Buffalo, WY, July 2025 Last time we were in Buffalo, Wyoming, I wanted to visit the Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. Unfortunately, we were not able to visit because we were only in town for 5 nights and we didn’t have time. So, I had drag John to the mill along with the other errands of…

  • Bighorn National Forest (North)

    Burgess Junction, WY, July 2025 We stayed at Garryowen, MT because Kate wanted to drive the Northern Route through Bighorn National Forest on Route 14. Route 14 through the forest is almost 60 miles south of Garryowen and about 35 miles long. In total, it is about 2 hours of driving, each way, due to…

  • Hayden Valley Day 35: Part 1

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Back to the inadequate pictures… These were the first test pictures of the day, after John realized the Canon R7 was not performing as well as he expected. John believes that the only change for these pictures was using the smaller “Spot Auto-focus” instead of the “Single Point Auto-focus”.…

  • We Temporarily Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program …

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 … to clean, pack, maintain our vehicles, and prepare for travel. There are several days of pictures that still need to be posted. Our next stop is only two days, and we need to stock up on food, medicine, and other supplies. The rest of the posts will probably…

  • Hayden Valley Day 41

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 After Kate got the spotting scope, we went to Hayden Valley to watch wolves around 8 am. We never saw any, so we went on to do other things. We wanted to see the wolves with Kate’s spotting scope and John’s 800mm lens before we left. The weather forecast…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 37

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was a very long day. We left at 8 am and did not make it back home until after 8 pm. We immediately grabbed our shower gear and left again. Finally, we were back in the trailer for the night around 9 pm which would 10 pm central…

  • Gull Point Drive Day 39: Part 2

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 It seems like any edge of Yellowstone Lake that is not perfectly round has a name. If the lake bumps out, it is a bay. If the land bumps out, it is a point. Just past Bridge Bay Campground is a two mile stretch of road called Gull Point…

  • Grand Prismatic Spring Day 39

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The plan for today was to get up at 7 am, leave by 8am, and arrive at the Steel Bridge Parking at about 9 am to hike to the Grand Prismatic Spring Overlook and Fairy Falls. John stayed up until about 1 am culling and processing photos and writing…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 38

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Yes, we can count; we skipped over day 37. John did some reading on the Canon R7 to change settings to improve the focus. There are three shutter settings – mechanical, electronic first curtain, and electronic. That list goes from slowest to fastest, noisiest to quietest, and most vibration…