Elk, solitary trees and ducks. Or geese.

I was only sticking out a window when I took my photo.

 

I'm not exactly sure how this tree ended up so far out in Lake Yellowstone and not dead, but I'm fairly certain it didn't swim. However, given my experience in taking the pictures, the tree may have been seeking to escape the miserable clouds of mosquitoes on the shoreline.

 

It's been so long since I took this photo that I can't remember for sure -- and I'm not good with identifying animal silhouettes -- but I think these are geese. To be safe, I've named one photo "Ducks on a Pond*" and the other one "Geese in a Row."

 
*Full disclosure: it's not a pond.

Weedhopper

If only they could stick to eating driveway weeds.

Bird is the (picture worth a thousand) words

This bird was in an all-out brawl with one of the stiffest winds of the summer.

Summer night lights

I'm still working to get the hang of lightning photography, but I made some progress this July and August. The weather was patient, returning for a couple re-shoots.

Not my first rodeo

From the July 3 Cody Stampede rodeo in Cody, Wyo. Pretty sure it'd been 10 years since I'd set foot at a rodeo, which was too long.

Pictures in the park

From June 18, 2010 in Yellowstone National Park and Shoshone National Forest.

This moose, along the North Fork of the Shoshone River, was admirably good at ignoring loud, hand-waving tourists

One bad temper away from for that award-winning "trample" shot.

Big Horn sheep turn the road into Sylvan "don't" Pass.

Black bears manage to look ferocious even when eating something as dainty as dandelions.

Yellowstone's summer fauna

I'm trying to catch up on posting photos from this summer. As evidence of how much I've fallen behind, these are from an early June visit to Yellowstone.
"While the other chipmunks begged for trifling bits of peanuts and cashews, Alfred hatched a plot to make off with the tourists' entire lunch."
The ground squirrels just off the Beaver Pond Trail near Mammoth Hot Springs seemed kind of fascinated (or perhaps just wary) with having a photographer.
Word of a stranger travels fast in a small squirrel town.
These rodents can also be "Take the high ground squirrels" when the occasion warrants.
I'm not sure if all herons look this hippy-ish.
Momma and baby bison, eating together.