Driving to the waterfalls on our last evening in Yellowstone, every turn brought a different color to the canyon. Truly magnificent. No wonder it's called Artist Point. We could spend days painting this area.
The forest fires were another startling site. Do you know why forest fires are so important? The fire melts the cones, releasing the nuts and popping them like popcorn, spreading them around the ground. Cool, right? It’s remarkable how much of the forest we saw had been on fire
at one point or another. You could see evidence of fire almost everywhere, at every stage of
recovery. There were burned forests that still smelled of char, and forests with trees falling unpredictably in every direction and then there were burned forests with baby forests beneath them. Healing themselves.
Firemen are the most amazing detectives and I'm lucky to have 2 in my own family. How in the world are they able to track down what starts a fire? They know the 1988 fire started from a cigarette butt being thrown out the window in Idaho. They knew it and then proceeded to find the butt and it’s owner who pled guilty. Our guide told us he’s still doing community service. His butt actually caused a small fire, which led to a big electrical wire falling down, which then caused the treacherous blaze throughout the park.
That man is wishing he’d never taken his first puff, eh?
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