I decided I needed a break from writing and took off on what I thought was going to be a nice snow shoe with my dog. I haven’t been up to the Laramie Mountains in a few weeks, and when I got there I realized that the warm weather we’ve been having (warm is 30’s…
SEE MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WYOMING First off, if you enjoy hearing local stories about the places you drive through or visit on road trips and adventures and enjoy learning about geology, whether you’re a geologist by trade or someone who always found it interesting, then I would highly recommend buying the Roadside Geology Books!…
As I’m in the last stages of writing my masters thesis on two years of work on the geology and chemistry of the Thermopolis hot springs in central Wyoming, I decided to re-visit some of my field work photos. Sitting here typing in front of the computer made me forget that I am actually studying…
This image is the color version of the black and white image from the previous post (which you can see here). I flip flop between which one I like better depending on my mood, however today I am leaning towards the color vesion. Here is the black and white version:
“Wind Blown Ice on Alpine Trees, Snowy Range Mountains, Wyoming” This is what a forest looks like at 11,000 feet in June on the Medicine Bow Peak Trail on the way to the peak of the Snowy Range Mountains in Wyoming. The wind is always whipping down the slopes from the west and causes these…
After a morning of fishing around Brooks Lake in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, a summer afternoon storm started to roll in. Right on cue when you are in the mountains this time of year. I took this image right before it thundered and hailed for a bit while I comforted my cowering dog in…
“Elk grazing under a stormy sunset, Yellowstone National” I think I’ll end the night with this photo. After a long day of doing field research in Yellowstone National Park, I was driving back to camp around the northern entrance of the park, took a second to look out my window and immediately found a place…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/13dec_geminids/ The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Make sure to take some time and be patient and you might see some meteors or fireballs despite the full moon. Look to the upper left of Orion to find the Gemini constellation. You can even get the app MeteorCounter and collect some data for NASA!
I took this one just outside of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming on a warm summers night. Wyoming never fails to give you a sense of vastness with each sunset. What this picture doesnât show is the wicked winds that ripped and tore through our camp that evening!