Table for Two – Lobby in Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel

October 21, 2010 by 5 Comments
Interior Room at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel

Table for Two © 2010 Bo Mackison

Yes, I’m still posting photographs from Yellowstone National Park, though this isn’t an ordinary shot. But it is one of my favorites. Is it the lines or the colors, the minimalism or the mood? I’m not sure.

This little room is in the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, tucked just off the main lobby. The closed door, leading to a storage room, is quite short, and reminds me of an Alice in Wonderland portal. The stairs wrap around the room while allowing natural light to come in through the windows.

Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel was designed by architect Robert Reamer, who is most famous for designing Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone. The Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel was built in 1937. It’s quite a simple building, but lovely to explore.

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Henry’s Fork – Harriman Wildlife Refuge in Idaho

October 18, 2010 by 8 Comments

Henry’s Fork © 2010 Bo Mackison

Henry’s Fork, a river flowing through the Harriman Wildlife Refuge in Idaho. A study in simplicity.

Solitary Tree © 2010 Bo Mackison

Or Henry’s Fork with a solitary tree near the river banks. Simplicity with a focal point.

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Idaho Aspens in Targhee National Forest

October 16, 2010 by 10 Comments

Idaho Aspens © 2010 Bo Mackison

We headed west when we left Yellowstone National Park and entered Targhee National Forest. Most of the aspen were wearing their autumn colors, bright golden leaves flickering in the breezes. It was cloudy much of the morning as we traveled through Idaho, but that seemed to highlight the intensity of the many golds.

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Lodge Pole Pines at Celestine Pool in Yellowstone National Park

October 12, 2010 by 14 Comments

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.

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Iron Spring Creek – Sunrise at Yellowstone National Park

October 7, 2010 by 12 Comments
Geyserite Mound with Runoff into Iron Spring Creek at Yellowstone
Iron Spring Creek © 2010 Bo Mackison

This mound of geyserite to the left of the creek indicates that there have been geysers in this part of Yellowstone National Park for eons.

The run off from pools and geysers in the Black Sand Geyser Basin flows into Iron Spring Creek. The reddish-brown color of the creek, however, is not from iron, but from a reddish brown algae that is present in the creek because of thermal warming.

This is another sunrise photograph.

The temperature had dropped to 28˚F on this early October morning, and so there was a magnificent display of steaming hot pools in the basin. The early light bathed the whole area in luminous beauty.

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