Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: formations

This was quite a strange cloud, but beautiful, stretching out across the Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary on 5 November 2012. You can just make out the distant mountain peaks.

Part of the formations around one of the hot springs at Black Sand Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, US. Taken on 13 September 2012. Black Sand Basin was named for the course black obsidian sand that surrounds the thermal features there. This photo is from the same Basin as my previous photo, of Emerald Pool. This area is only about 1/2 mile from Old Faithful Geyser. "Black Sand Basin contains a small collection of jewel-like geysers, and colorful hot springs. Emerald Pool is the most colorful and famous of these springs. It is a deep emerald green fringed by an outer ring of yellow and orange. Another colorful pool is Opalescent Pool. This recently formed pool inundated a stand of lodgepole pine, creating a stand of white skeletons amidst a rainbow-colored pool. An unusual geyser formed on the bank of Iron Creek. Cliff Geyser formed a rim or wall-like ridge of sinter around its crater from which it erupts 30 to 40 feet high." www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/blacksand.htm

Our temperature got up to about 11C today and the snow is gradually melting. When temperatures drop overnight, the melted snow freezes and forms all sorts of interesting crystal patterns. Saw these along the main hill going down into Weaselhead this morning.