Nez Perce Ford and Pelican Cone

Absolument magnifique cette prise de vue dégagée ******
Bonne journée.

I will remember your pictures from this area as "Smoking Volcanic Land...

It certainly is that, Udo.

beautiful!

seen in tolerance

Beautifully comnposed landscape image.

Jolie vue d'ensemble!!

Isn't this a wonderful and timeless image...it might have been taken at the time of its naming, for there is no way to tell! Beautiful and wonderful to think that what we are looking at, is just the way it was since the area formed. How cool is that to stand in a place like this and let your mind wrap itself around the whole time aspect. I love that, but it does take standing for a while and thinking carefully about what it means when something is so old or in this this case, unblemished. :) Loved the pictures of the cranes too, what a treat to see them! You are doing such a nice job as our Yellowstone Tour Guide! :) :)

I'm finally replying to the post you left on my morning light picture and thank you for the lavish compliments, my face is all a-glow! :D You totally cracked me up with "You should post one good photo and a bunch of bad photos, then I wouldn't have such a difficult time choosing." :D Well, sir, I could certainly say the same of you! :D And how grand it is that we've learned our passions well enough that there IS a struggle with choice! I never do forget the long and wonderful road of challenges that brought me to this point in my photography and when I was just a brand new nubbins with a gnawing desire to take pictures like folks I admired so--like YOU--but didn't have the skills yet. :) So...you go ahead and have a hard time choosing, and I'll do the same for you! :D *daintily puts a feather in my cap* *big hugs*

Love your comment about the backwards letters in the sign. It didn't occur to me that the stencils might have been intentionally layed down backwards! I wonder! And yeah, I do know how totally impossible it is to get kids to listen sometimes, heh. Been one of them...lately even...heh...Steve will be explaining something and I'll see an interesting detail in something and stare at it intently..."HEY! Would you please pay attention to me?"..."I WAS listening, but couldn't help looking at that too!" Heh...always a kid here...gets me in trouble!

Kids tearing down signs. Yup...my brothers were always part of groups that did such things, they could definitely be defiant punks! Not always but my parents had their hands full with 3 roudy boys who didn't like authority or rules! You can imagine what they thought of their straight A, library-ensconced, bookworm of a goodie-two-shoes sister! Not that I was perfect but I was next to them! :D (I have my skeletons, most definitely...but my indiscretions were not obvious!)

Re: your rant about people thinking it's ok to do whatever they like, wherever they like. I agree with you completely. It's utterly amazing to both of us how people behave. It's shocking and embarrassing to witness. I especially cannot STAND the way tourists behave...Americans in particular, they are absolutely the worst of them all by far and away. In fact, Steve and I identify ourselves as Canadian when it comes up because we don't like to be associated with the horrendous behavior exhibited almost without fail by the idiots who inadvertently act as ambassadors and examples for the whole of the US. That, quite frankly, pisses us off (and I'm sure you and Nancy concur). Heh...and you apologized for YOUR rant...now I apologize for mine! :D

Steve snickered at your comment, "Does that man ever sit down or sit still? He wishes that was the truth, but personally, however long it takes to do things is fine by me! He's amazing. The awesome thing about our RVs is that it's required Steve to use his innate genius to come up with the creative solutions for all of the upgrades done to them. He really missed his calling as a top-tier engineer because that's something that comes very easily to him and though I am no slouch in my own right--but with a very different set of skills--I cannot keep up with his explanations of complex solutions sometimes! Wonderful to be with someone so smart (and it's always been this way in my family...my parents passed on their smarts to all of us!) but it can be exhausting trying to understand sometimes. Ever since we got our RVs, Steve's had plenty of noodle nudgers and it will always be that way because there are always new things to upgrade, change, fix or figure out. :) Steve eats it up!

I am so glad you have the same vehicle so you could just move the cabinetry from your old Sienna to the new. Might have fit in something else but it's just perfect that you merely need to move from one to the other. A real shame if the work your son put into creating them was wasted.

Yesterday when I visited your pictures, I made a beeline to the bison picture, as I mentioned...I couldn't wait to read about what happened. I'll reply to your response after I'm done here, but bottom line is that it's wonderful that nothing bad happened except for a scare!

Talking about our shared love of Thai and asian food in general, it occurred to me...I'm going to guess you have a favorite place to go but have you incorporated an asian grocery store into your life? I see that Spokane has a number of them: www.google.com/search?q=spokane+asian+market&oq=spokane+asian+market&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.5665j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The reason I mention is that there are so many asian staples that we keep in the house, but if you try to buy these at normal grocery stores, they are often not available or if they are, usually through the roof in price. The joy of wandering the aisles of a well-stocked asian market is just wonderful. Always something interesting to try! Even though we'd love to have the kind of markets found in San Francisco, there's quite a nice one here in Medford! (https://www.facebook.com/pg/AsiaMarketMedford/photos/?tab=album&album_id=467754236623718&ref=page_internal )

You were mentioning curries and it made me think about the three curry paste tubs we have in our refrigerator: green, red and panang. They last FOREVER because you need so little to add a LOT of flavor. The ones we have are Mai Ploy ( secretpantryla.com/products/mae-ploy-authentic-thai-curry-paste-14-oz-tub-variety-flavors ) but honestly we should have every one of their flavors, they're exceptional. LOL, I mentioned the high price of asian food in US markets. FOR EXAMPLE, the link I sent you took you to a page which sells the tubs for nearly $12 each! OMG! Here, at this import site, the name is different but they are the very same, and only $5 each!! importfood.com/products/thai-curry-paste
You probably already know this though...you'll likely find the same low prices at your local asian market (as long as it's not americanized!)

And of course I expect you also know, this same technique can be used for hispanic grocery stores and, if you can find any other ethnic markets, going to the authentic, "can't speak English" stores will give you the best choices at the best prices! :) All wrapped up in a cool experience as well. :)

The birds are going to town at your feeders, how wonderful!! It is the same here when we stock the feeders, how nice to get visits from so many species! :) Grats on getting pictures too. You make me want to get restocked and put out feed!

Finally, I hope your dad's legs are being tended to. *sigh* Memories of my dad come to mind with the same issues. He had trouble with sores re: poor circulation. It's part of growing old I guess. Our parents are stubborn though and it's not easy to get them to do what's right. :(

Ok, I'm out! Thanks for the excuse to look at asian foods and markets and such! Such fun, and now I'm going to badger Steve into making curry!! That will be an easy task! Tonight though, we're having a bbq'd ribeye...om NOM!! :D

Ok, I added my reply to your comment here!
www.ipernity.com/doc/162835/49509404

"Nez percé" (Pierced nose) ... a French name here !
Heard about Yellowstone at the radio the other day. They said that in this very old place we can see a lot about climate change ...

Admirable en tout !!!

Wonderful landscape with a fabulous Pelican Cone !!
Amazing, Ron!

Exceptional scenic shot!

Admired in:
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Very pretty!

As for your job as our Yellowstone Tour Guide, I can only agree with Janet. :))