Vacation to Yellowstone Park (Wyoming)

      and other great places!!

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St. Albert's Liberal Catholic Church in Greeley, Colorado

            Our first stop -- Sunday, June 20

Christ the King	The keyboard booth	Ann on the job
Censing +Lloyd	Christopher Crews and Fr. James McGill	Patrick and Donovan in the congregation
Fr. Brian Satterlee and Fr. Ian Carman in Our Lady's corner	+Lloyd Worley - on God as Ruler of Angels	Fr. Ian, Fr. James, Rt. Rev. Fr. Lloyd, Ann, Fr. Brian, Christopher
Patrick, +Lloyd, Ann, Donovan

Grand Teton National Park

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

		Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Sacred Heart in stained glass	Mother and Child	Jesus of the Sacred Heart
Station XIV	Log chapel with nave and transcept	Jackson Dam
Jackson Lake	Donovan at GTNP	Black Dike
Today's Glaciers	Tour Bus	Leigh Lake
Moose. We learned a new word: Moosejam...	...meaning a traffic jam caused by people stopping to take pictures of a moose.	Ann at String Lake

Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve

	Phelps Lake	Phelps Lake
Chipmunk	Snowshoe rabbit	Another moose.

Yellowstone National Park -- Day 1

Welcome to YELLOWSTONE!!	Gray day in the mountains	Bison in the park
Hot springs on a cool day	Southern entrance to park	Canyon on Lewis River
Lewis River in the rain	High point of our day	Mooned by an elk
Ann at West Thumb of Lake Yellowstone	Boardwalk on thermal activity area	Smelling the sulphur
West Thumb lake	Big cone hot spring	Thermal pool
Suphur and steam	Let's go to Old Faithful!!	Patches of snow
Waterfalls everywhere...	Bosolds at Old Faithful
		Chromatic pool
Grotto Geyser	Morning Glory thermal pool
Old Faithful at rest	The crowd awaits...eruption every 90 minutes!	Hawk in flight
Little blue bird	Old Faithful - starting to spew!	Bigger...
Full force!

Yellowstone National Park -- Day 2

Bison	Bison with calves	Elk
Gibbon Falls	Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River	Grand...
Canyon...	of...	Yellowstone River
Descent on foot	Canyon	Ann at Lower Falls
So that's why they call it Yellowstone?	Canyon view	Seen at a Bear Jam
At Norris Geyser Basin		Museum
Porcelain Basin	geyser	Back Basin
Donovan at Back Basin

Yellowstone National Park - Day 3

We got an early start..	...and were rewarded with	the sight of this buffalo herd...
crossing the road, chasing shutterbugs.	...shaggy in spring	Deer
Deer again	We'll never forget these...	...beautiful falls...
...but we forgot their name!	Baby Bear. (Mama bear was there, but the ranger chased us away before we got a picture. So we're still alive.)	Mammoth Hot Springs
Unbelievable.	Liberty Cap hot spring deposit	Words fail me.
	You...	must...
go...	see...	this...
at...	Mammoth...	Hot...
Springs...
Bosolds at Undine Falls	Bull Elk at Wraith Falls	We saw Bison every day at the park
Petrified Tree	No Nothing. Very Zen.	Pretty close...
A Bear in Roosevelt Village, natch.	Very shaggy...	...mountain sheep
Patrick with snowball...	...had to throw it somewhere.	Flashing bison alert sign...
...improved by soft focus.	Rest time for Bison

Mount Rushmore -- Keystone, South Dakota

Triumphal arch with walkway honoring 50 states	Bosolds with the presidents	Lincoln musing over detritus
Washington in twilight	Iowa's column in walkway	Full moon over state flags
Presidents backlit by setting sun

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Corn Palace -- Mitchell, South Dakota

All the murals are made of corn, on cobs, of different colors.

Grotto of the Redemption -- West Bend, Iowa

Bosolds at the Grotto	from across the pond	Main Gate
Trumpeter Swans with 6 cygnets	St. Michael	Eve
Mother and Child	St. Michael and Master Jesus	Museum
Christmas Grotto	Jesus and Little Children	Glorification of the Incarnation
I am come that you may have life	Annunciation and Nativity	Donovan at main altar
St. Clare	Patrick and Ann at Station 13

Some favorite flowers