Bones in Mudpots Baby Onesie

Fountain Paint Pot Self-Guiding Trail
The easy boardwalk trail will give you a close-up look as all four kinds of Yellowstone’s geothermal features: mudpots, fumaroles, geysers, and hot springs. What is more, the small hill traversed by this trail will give you a wonderful glimpse into how different thermal features form. According to how close they are to available groundwater. At the foot of the small hill, water is abundant; at Silex Spring, for example water rises from the ground, pools, then overflows (Silex is the Latin word for silica). As you climb higher you will rise above the water table, where there exists only enough moisture to form mudpots. Here you see and hear the glop and gurgle of the Fountain Paint Pot. Go farther along the trail, climb a little higher still, and suddenly there are only steam vents, or fumaroles.
Mudpots occur in places where microorganisms help convert hydrogen sulfide, which rises from deep within the earth, into sulfuric acid. The acid...

I have an incredible love for the out doors, followed by my love to photograph all of creation. I have been doing this for many years and have quite a huge collection of images and prints. I think, without a doubt, that my favorite thing to photograph is the finite detail of nature, next would be wildlife, and scenics. Some of my favorite locations are Yellowstone Park, Glacier Park, Crater Lake, Banff Alberta, and the West Coast. I love being where there is alot of fresh air and a trail to hike. I also enjoy kayaking, snowshoeing, and x-country skiing. All of these give me unlimited opportunity to do what I love so I can share what I see with you. In the past, I have done very little enhancing in my images, but in the last year of so I...