For today's blog I asked Eric to make a random photo selection from our 7 billion (an approximation) photos. He chose this photo.
So, let me first explain what you are looking at and then I will put it all into context. You are looking at a blade of grass, leached of it's color, laying in sulfuric water. The photo was taken at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone Park.
Before we were married I decided to take Eric to the homeland, Montana...what that's not your homeland? Anyway, we drove up from New Mexico, where we were going to college, and went through Utah, Wyoming and into Montana.
Eric got to see a very different side of the US. Before that he had been mostly an East Coaster. He saw buffalo and moose, geysers and gigantic mountains while traveling North.
Mammoth Hot Springs is on the Montana side of Yellowstone Park. Shortly after this photo was taken we left Yellowstone Park and drove into Gardiner, MT where Eric got his first real taste of Montana. It was early evening, the shadows were getting long and we drove (triumphantly) into Montana. He was instantly sold and fell in love with the state.
So, I decided I could marry him. OK that's a lie I was already planning to marry him, but I was so happy that he too loved Montana.
Have you ever been to Yellowstone Park?
7 comments:
What lovely context! Why, yes! I have been to Yellowstone and it factored into my own love story...DH and I made it one of our stops during our cross-country move to Seattle in 1998. You got a way-cooler shot than we did, though. :-)
No, sadly I've never been. Colorado is as west as I've been in the US. But going to Yellowstone and exploring that part of the country is definitely something I want to do. It looks so amazingly beautiful!
Liked the story, especially the punch line.
When S and I were in Arizona, neither one of us had been to the Grand Canyon. I was eager to goand kept trying to schedule the time we were going, but she kept dragging her feet. I was totally dumbfounded because I couldn't believe she didn't want to go. She said she really waanted o see the painted desert, so I said, okay, we can drive through it on the way to the Gand Canyon. When we finally got there, both of us were just totally blown away by the grandeur of it all. S was ecstatic. I was glad, bugt also confused. When I asked her why she was so reluctant to go, she said she hadn't realized what it was. When she saw the Brady Bunch episode when they went, it just seemed like a big hole in the ground. We are both so going back to the Grand Canyon.
i have not been to yellowstone. i would love to go someday. with my husband and kids. :)
i love how you and eric love each other. you two make me happy.
It looked like the surface of the moon to me...even with the blade of grass...really terrific photo.
have not been to Yellowstone, although it's on the list of places to visit. Gosh, there are so many wondrous things to see out there!
Yes! and have my own lovely memories of seeing a moose! Man are they HUGE!
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