What to Wear in Jackson WY

What to Wear in Jackson Hole (including Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Park) Wyoming is notorious for changing weather patterns.  Review, revise, and edit your wardrobe constantly.  Wear layers always, everywhere, and at a moment’s notice.  (Consequently, I’m working on getting approved by some affiliates so you can see exactly which layers to wear, more …

A Local’s Life

Things I do in Jackson Wyoming: Where to find me: The biggest issue in Jackson is that there is too much to do and too many things going on. So, that means it is very important to be intentional about what you want to do and who you want to be.  This goes for tourists …

Zombie Insect Apocalypse

Today’s post is brought to you by the 2024 Zombie Insect apocalypse.🐞 That’s right! We’ve got Aphids and Leaf Miners; as well as a whole bunch of other crazy forest creature beetle festering infections.  Do not fear though, these harmful infestations are not only beautiful, but easily manageable. We just had to turn to our …

Frost Skeletons

Frozen. The sting of winter; all that knows it seek hibernation or death. Except those with allergies; we love the weighty blanket; covering all our vulnerability and illness; protecting us from that which harms… let someone else be sick for a change. Let the trees hold us up with their arms, they are used to …

Autumn Gratitude

Happy Virgo season; today is the September New Moon 9/2/24.  What new seeds are you planting for the next 6 months?  The dark nights without the moonlight help us to really dig deep: And there’s this next stage too… The reflection after the freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw. The time most people may not …

Hot Springs: The Enchanted Terraces of Yellowstone

The Living Stairs of Stone: Mammoth Hot Springs Unfolded Mammoth Hot Springs – springtime trip through Yellowstone National Park: A great day in Yellowstone: we saw more bears than we can count (from mammoth to tower FYI), bison, elk, antelope, cranes, geese, ducks, osprey, raven (and more bears) at least 5, Kristen thinks she saw …

Endless Butterflies

Hiking the Huckleberry Trail and entering into endless fields of fervent flutter-bys, ravishing and delightful; full of brilliance. It was shocking how many there were, ba-jillions… floating, squirming, fighting, fleeing back and forth in all sorts of flight patterns; anxiously in search of sweet August nectar before the summer sun sets. When Kenai was first …

Paintbrush of August

The paintbrush of August; Harvest season: when our ripe fruits need picking, seed pods are dispersing, and nervous energy of sunshine months is at its highest. We are in the thick of things, some of us still drastically flattened by the curve of life, others riding the jagged waves— to distance or not too distant, …

Tired Knees of the Solomon’s Seal

I never knew the unique but prodigious Solomon’s Seal could be found in Wyoming.❤️ For this post, my interest lead me to find where the name comes from. The Greek name Polygonatum yields a scientific explanation: poly “many” and gonu “knee.” The knees for some botanists seem to refer to the areas between the indentions …