Canary Spring, in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone, steams in the early morning.
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Canary Spring appears to fall off a cliff.
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The backside of Canary Spring cascades down in Kodachrome colors.
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Bison, bison, everywhere. When they get near a road they become a major problem because everyone stops to look at them. After a couple of days in the park people just ignore them.
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This one hopped a fence to get into the parking lot.
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Grotto Geyser steam between eruptions. The cause of the odly shaped "cone" is not known, but it may be from trees encased in the solidfied spray from the geyser.
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Riverside Geyser is at teh end of the trail from Old Faithful, but puts on a nice show. it's 20 minute eruptions occure about every 6 hours. If the light is right you can see a rainbow in the spray, but it wasn't meant to be the day we were there.
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Jupiter Spring. These trees were overrun by the mineral deposits from the spring and are now preserved by them.
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Canary Spring has captured its own trees to become part of the "permenant" landscape.
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Minerva Terrace. The terrace is dry now. The water flow that formed it found a different path and now flows somewhere else.
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Orange Mound Spring. This mound is about 15 feet high. It is fed by a small spring so is probably a few hundered years old, and slowly growing. Heat loving bacteria and algea give it the interesting colors.
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Trapped trees are found at many springs, but these are particularly eye catching.
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The so-called "Grand Canyon of Yellowstone".
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Churning Cauldorn.
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This patch of ground, down stream from Churning Cauldron is only about 6 feeet long. The colors come from bacteria, fungi and algae.
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Castle Geyser has lost some of its magesty in the last 100 years as tourists have broken of pieces to take home.
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