October 7, 2012 "Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impression upon the soul of man." ~ Orison Swett Marden There are so many beautiful rivers and streams in Wyoming - I can attest to that fact by the many, many photos that I took of the water. This is a shot of the Firehole River in Yellowstone. I was playing around with it, just to see what would happen. When I added the daguerreotype filter from Picmonkey, I rather liked the result, so I post this for my potd. Check it out in X-large.3 Thank you all for making Saturday (10/6) photo of the hot springs at Yellowstone the number 3 photo yesterday - as of t 9:15 PM CST. I am humbly surprised and thrilled. You guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you. I'm off again on a business trip today (Sunday) - will be working on the holiday Monday. Gee, I wish I hadn't missed 3 Monday holidays this year with business travel, but it is what it is............nevertheless..........I'm glad to have a job... Will be in Orlando from Sunday through Wednesday morning . We might take off Tuesday afternoon & go to Disneyworld. Gee, I hope so - I've never been there before. Fingers crossed, if not..... it's ok. I'll be back to Dallas on Wednesday. Will do my best to catch up on comments. Bill has rotator cuff surgery Thursday morning - so I'll be home with him. should give me plenty of time to catch up on comments. Love you guys! Smuggers ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your kind support, comments, critiques and for browsing my photos, I am humbly grateful to each of you for that. Take care, Linda
October 6, 2012 "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~ John Muir Nature is indeed amazing. It's all around us, and we must take the time to stop and enjoy it. That's just what we did while we were in Yellowstone. Here's another photo of one of the amazing hot springs in the park. To see other views of this glorious place, click on the following links. http://lgood.smugmug.com/Travel/Vacations/18186464_wfxNtK#!i=2120305832&k=hC3VrqD http://lgood.smugmug.com/Travel/Vacations/18186464_wfxNtK#!i=2120351740&k=vzw2cNg http://lgood.smugmug.com/Travel/Vacations/18186464_wfxNtK#!i=2120393345&k=cxhg94F Have an amazing weekend my friends!!! TGIF!!! Linda
October 3, 2012 “I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.” ~ Johnny Depp This is another shot from the West Thumb area of Yellowstone where the mineral water is flowing out to Lake Yellowstone in the background. I was just fascinated by all the many colors that the minerals and algae (bacteria, creature, life forms - whatever it is) created around the hot pools. It's almost hard to believe that life thrives in these generally un-hospitalble conditions. See tomorrow's potd for a close up of these life forms.............It's a pretty cool mosaic. This shot has no PP except for the frame created in Picmonkey. Have a glorious day today my friends! Linda
