Cody, Wyoming - I used to think that Yellowstone was more bizarre than beautiful.
Not anymore.
America's first national park offers a landscape of extremes: spewing geysers, bubbling mud pots, hot springs, cold rivers, violent waterfalls, languid lakes, lush valleys, a rocky canyon and peaks just high enough to force a flatlander's breath.
The sky changes constantly. Blue above. Gray over there. Mist on the horizon. A rainbow over my shoulder.
There's wildlife everywhere. And endless photographic possibilities.
I could spend a lifetime here.
I had three days.
And my handy smartphone camera.
Travel light. Rise early. Stay out late. Look everywhere.
In a general store, I found souvenirs. And a T-shirt promoting Yellowstone as the “oldest & best.”
Bonnie Jo Mount, Washington Post-Bloomberg