Surveilling Winter yellowstone park

Surveilling Winter yellowstone parkAn ermine, a weasel that turns from brown to white in the winter, peeks from the snow in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley. These solitary animals blend in so perfectly with their surroundings that I rarely see them. While they weigh only a few ounces, they are ferocious hunters, capable of killing cottontail rabbits. Agile, curious, and with a bounding gate that carries them across even loose snow, they're one of my favorite small mammals.

A female house finch plucks a plum blossom from a tree during early spring in Montana

with lightning tearing the sky apart over hundreds of square miles of unbroken wilderness

a hint of color in the river

a species of wild orchid

offered here at 12x36

A variety of sizes are listed below

A young ponderosa pine has found a foothold on sandstone cliffs in eastern Montana

These highly-colorful birds have a tropical appearance

An aspen grove near Bozeman

This is a beautiful time in Montana with the seasons' life cycle in the prime of its life

but the view - at high altitude in low humidity - is always worthwhile

I climbed nearly straight up through a jungle of burned timber lying like shattered matchsticks