Living With Dogs
Sandra Nykerk • November 18, 2010
For everyone who has ever had a dog, known a dog, or met a dog on the street. Or a kitty. Dear Departed Mariah would be fine in the car and then literally be completely hysterical in a hotel room. I once had to cut her out of a motel box springs. (Memo: Always travel with a Leatherman. And duct tape.) And now, as long as the car is moving, Miss Kitty is yowling at the top o f her lungs — unless she is thowing up. Happy laughing . . .
The Top Ten Signs It Is Spring in Yellowstone #10 My dwarf iris are blooming in Gardiner. And the Gardiner hills are flushed with green. Green, what a lovely color! #9 The rivers are up. In the past 3 days,they’ve gone from a crystal clear trickleto the consistency of chocolate milk. #8 […]
This. Twenty years ago this morning the wolf was returned to Yellowstone National Park. I was in the right place at the right time, and thanks to an early morning phone call from Tom McNamee alerting me to a change in schedule, I was standing there when the convoy carrying the wolves (still in their […]
It is summer in Yellowstone. Finally. Not just a cool and rainy late spring slowly giving way to warmer days, but instant overnight firecracker hot summer. The prickly pear are blooming on the dry hills outside of Gardiner, and a cloud of young grasshoppers scatters at every step. It’s so bright, it is difficult to […]
50 Years is Half a Century I am old enough to remember where I was. In an American history class. How ironic. The school secretary pushed a button that caused the incomprehensible news coming across the radio to be broadcast on the school’s public address system. The first sentence I remember hearing was, “the President […]
Dry roads, a bright sunny day coinciding with the Spring Equinox, and a willing and patient companion provided the impetus for the first official road trip of 2013. Launched from Livingston and into the beautiful sweeping prairies of central Montana. I love these grand Montana views and the remnants of the ragged little towns still […]
Sunday was the last day of the season that the roads in the interior of Yellowstone were open, so I made a ritual drive down to Old Faithful and out through West Yellowstone. It seemed like at least half of Gardiner was also doing the same. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to drive […]