Morning Glory Pool no longer looks much like its name-sake. Vandals have thrown so much junk into the pool that the water flow has become somewhat clogged. This has changed the color of the pool of the last 100+ years.
Chromatic Pool. The colors are caused by different living organisms in the pool, depending on the temperature of the water at that location.
Sawmill Geyser puts on a show close enough to get wet.
Canary Spring, in the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone, steams in the early morning.
Canary Spring appears to fall off a cliff.
This one hopped a fence to get into the parking lot.
Bison, bison, everywhere. When they get near a road they become a major problem because everyone stops to look at them. After a couple of days in the park people just ignore them.
The backside of Canary Spring cascades down in Kodachrome colors.
Beauty Pool shows the characteristic colors pf thermophile bacteria. The color is tied to the water temperature because different organisms thrive at varying temperatures
Castle Geyser has lost some of its magesty in the last 100 years as tourists have broken of pieces to take home.
Trapped trees are found at many springs, but these are particularly eye catching
Canary Spring has captured its own trees to become part of the "permenant" landscape.
Riverside Geyser is at the end of the trail from Old Faithful, but puts on a nice show. it's 20 minute eruptions occur about every 6 hours. If the light is right you can see a rainbow in the spray, but it wasn't meant to be the day we were there.
Jupiter Spring. These trees were overrun by the mineral deposits from the spring and are now preserved by them.
Orange Mound Spring. This mound is about 15 feet high. It is fed by a small spring so is probably a few hundred years old, and slowly growing. Heat loving bacteria and algae give it the interesting colors.
Minerva Terrace. The terrace is dry now. The water flow that formed it found a different path and now flows somewhere else.
Churning Cauldron.
The so-called "Grand Canyon of Yellowstone".
Grotto Geyser steam between eruptions. The cause of the odly shaped "cone" is not known, but it may be from trees encased in the solidfied spray from the geyser.
