double, double, toil and trouble

fire burn and

caldron bubble.

saturday we decided to take a drive up to yellowstone.
we took the grand tour as it is called, which means you take the whole loop
around the park.

it really should be done in more than one day like we did,
but it is doable.

this is the first stop...

the west thumb geyser basin.

this group of geysers sit on the edge of yellowstone lake.

like everywhere throughout the park, you are on a boardwalk that
travels over and around the geysers.

each geyser is beautiful in it's own weird way

some are deep clear blue

some are muddy

some just bubble

some are steamy

one is an awesome deep green

which is rightly named ..

there are also small streams that run out of the geysers to the lake

this one is a color i can't even describe.

there is a geyser in the lake

some people are brave enough to canoe along the shore

this is looking away from the geysers, along the edge of the lake

some of the geysers have dried up

and are now home to flowers

that was the first stop on the tour

next stop

yellowstone falls