Landscape

Once again
Inevitably vital
Leave a mark

Over time, ample evidence appears in the “caldera” indicating stored heat and energy. Chemical elements present in geothermal mud renders the soil relatively acidic due to thermophile bacteria consuming sulfur and creating sulfuric acid, causing even further surrounding rock disaggregation.

“The park delivers big when it comes to providing visitors with views of these strange, mysterious, odd-smelling steaming vents and spouting features.” – Tori Peglar

Deeply textured
By all appearances
Splendiferously effulgent

Subjective perspective enlightens the appearance coherence of existential phenomena. The winter’s atmosphere is especially clear, etching light contours into memory plenums facilitating sympathetic awareness promulgation.

“The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.” – Annie Dillard

Cold ways
Winter silence
Duration resolve

Repainting the landscape’s surface, the morning sun appears above the mountains, evoking a quite elegance and calm feeling of enchantment. Winter is filled with warm memories.

“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs

Kicked up mist
Cloud of spray
Refraction dispersion

On a very cold and bright winter day, the trip to Shoshone Falls was highlighted by a natural optical phenomena, a polarized spectral arch hovering over the canyon. When perceptible, a rainbow follows the arc of a precise circle centered on the shadow of the observer’s head.

“Rainbows have a way of making the world seem right.” – Anthony T. Hincks

Moving water
Fascinating vitality
River embrace

Bodies of water, in all their many manifestations, remain places of fascination. Ever-changing and elusive, rivers are essential powerful dynamic cyclic systems that balance and regulate the Earth and its atmosphere.

“Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

Confines potential
Realities and dreams
Mutually constitute

Snow serves to simplify an elegant winter panorama. Such an engaging landscape may be affirmed in virtue of two variant paradigms. One locates aesthetic quality as inherent in the extrinsic physical manifestation, while the other regards visual virtue as a mental construct.

“Is not the core of nature already inside the heart of human kind?” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Higher elevation
Immediately adjacent
Isolation prominence

Early morning sunlight spotlights the top of a geological phenomena under aesthetic scrutiny. Expanding the vicissitudes of time and place, this instance accentuates distinctions between what is changing and variable, subject to growth and decay, and what is more abiding.

“Mountain ranges differ considerably in their overall appearance.” – Adam Helman

Geologic history
Dramatic colors and shapes
Hydrothermally altered rhyolite

A tree on the precipice edge of an enormous erosional feature imparts a sense of scale in Yellowstone. Most of the yellows in the canyon are the result of iron existing in the rock walls.

“As I took in the scene, I realized my own littleness, my helplessness, my dread exposure to destruction, my inability to cope with or even comprehend the mighty architecture of nature.” – Nathaniel P. Langford

Land tranquility
Steaming geyser basins
Unique adventure

Hot spring water resists the winter cold caused by the Earth’s tilted axis and elliptical orbit.

“Winter is beautiful in Yellowstone National Park. Blanketed by snow, the 2.2-million-acre park exudes a mythical beauty.” – Candyce H. Stapen

Spectacular view
Enchanting remoteness
Dream destination

As the earth spins through space, the variegated sky places the mountain summit in context. Global topography is determined by the interaction of physical and chemical fluxes across a diffusive boundary surface.

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.” – Dag Hammerskjold