Saying Goodbye to Yellowstone

Our final trip into Yellowstone National Park this year was filled with several good sightings.

We saw this coyote jumping into holes hunting for some food.

Headed to Black Sand Basin...

A raven waited around to see if anyone would drop any tasty morsels.

Looking down Iron Creek at Black Sand Basin while a small geyser erupts.

And more of Black Sand Basin...

Upon arrival at Biscuit Basin, we found that we humans were not alone.

The bison (aka buffalo) calmly waited for all the humans to pass...

to give itself a good head scratching on the boardwalk...

and then slowly make its way across to the other side to promptly relieve itself.

Splish, splash we're not taking a bath in Mustard Spring.

It was kind of steamy at Midway Geyser Basin today.

On Firehole Lake Drive, we came across the Great Fountain Geyser. It erupts about every 12 hours and it was "scheduled" to erupt in about 45 minutes, so we decided to stick around and wait.

We waited and waited. The approximate time of eruption came and went. We waited another 30 minutes for the inevitable.

The wait was rewarded as the Great Fountain is one of the largest and most dramatic geysers in the park.

This cone-shaped geyser is Castle Geyser. It too only erupts a couple of times a day. It erupted while we were waiting for Great Fountain.

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To be continued...

A Look Around West Yellowstone

One of the unique little motels in West Yellowstone has a lamp sitting outside of it.

When they have a vacancy, they leave the light on for you.

The Yellowstone Family apparently lives here on Yellowstone Avenue.

The building actually used to be Yellowstone Family Pharmacy, but we guess the family got out of the pharmacy business.

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To be continued...

Farnsworth TV & Pioneer Museum, Rigby, Idaho

Do you know where the "Birthplace of Television" is? It's about 100 miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana in Rigby, Idaho.

It is here that we found the Farnsworth TV & Pioneer Museum, housed in the old Bond Motel building.

Philo Farnsworth came up with the idea for an all-electronic television while he was working in his potato field. He envisioned lines, similar to those in a planted field, which together formed an image.

This is an original tube Farnsworth used in his invention.

As an alumni of Rigby High School, he presented his original television tubes to the school in 1956.

The museum has a pretty large collection of items that can be viewed through a glass window.

Since there can be a lot of snow in this area, this collection of skis might come in handy.

The Pioneer Museum portion of the museum is run by the Jefferson County Historical Society. Each city in the county is given a room in which to create a display however it sees fit to.

This bathtub is the 1910 model. It was used by the Drakes in Cedron, Idaho. The bathhouse had a stream of water that ran under the tub into a creek and then drained into the pasture.

This looks like a great way to get a perm or an electrocution.

Which typewriter did you learn on? We learned on the IBM Selectric, the one on the right-hand side of the bottom row.

A local resident square dance caller donated this state of the art sound system to the museum.

The museum has quite a collection of wild animals with big teeth.

The Jefferson County Historical Society is able to lease this building for annual rent of $1.

Returning to West Yellowstone...

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To be continued...