
From Mammoth Hot Springs.

Jack thought this formation at Mammoth Springs looked like screaming ghouls. Happy Halloween!
This spring is one of many at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

That decorative cloud formation is actually the edge of the smoke plume from the Arnica Fire.
Possibly the oldest geyser in Yellowstone, not far from Old Faithful.
We saw comparatively few elk while we were in Yellowstone, but lots of bison. However, Jack reports seeing twenty elk on the way to the store the other morning, and has the photos to prove it at Suspicious and For this I travel hundreds of miles taken a day or so later. We see elk just often enough, when they travel over the ridge from the Air Force Academy, to be excited. However, I am just as happy not to have bison as near neighbors.
The Woodmen Road—Corridor Improvement Project is going to make things very interesting in the northern part of Colorado Springs for a while.

This statue of Balto in Central Park commemorates the delivery of diptheria anti-toxin by sled dogs to Nome, Alaska in 1925.