Lodge Pole Pines at Celestine Pool in Yellowstone National Park

Lodge Pole Pines at Celestine Pool © 2010 Bo Mackison

Celestine Pool, a hot spring pool at Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park, has repeatedly overflowed into this stand of lodge pole pines. The minerals in the pool were absorbed into the trunks of these trees and will eventually turn the trees completely white.