Silence...

Dear Jackson Hole Wyoming,

You are such a tease. Our weatherman tells me you will offer blue skies. So I hitch a ride with the super cute husband in the hopes that today might be the day when I get to photograph your beautiful Tetons, something I have failed at miserably all summer long. And what do I get?

This.... And it turns out, one must drive into this "hole" to get to a spot that one can even see the infamous mountain range.

However, once you get under this layer of clouds, all you see is grey, yucky, ickiness. So icky, the closest thing we saw to wildlife was this cobweb along the Elk Refuge fenceline.
Don't worry. I'll be back. Someday. Maybe.

Who am I kidding? I will be. The super cute husband likes the company.

Frustratingly yours,

A neighbor from Idaho.

P.S. Who needs to drive all the way to Wyoming for silent photographic moments when I can just drive up the highway to the Conant boat dock and find this....




P.S.S. The theme for this weeks "you capture" was silence... check out Beth's blog at "I should be folding laundry" to see more.







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Mormon Row...

A couple of times a year, I force the husband to take me to work with him one day when he ventures east to the (not so) great area called Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It's a beautiful area, but there is just something about that place ... I really don't like it there.

I don't like the drive, either... can you say Jackson Pass = major carsickness for me. Yeah. Nice.

It's torture for him to have to go at all, so I'm good company for him.

I decided this time that we were going to go somewhere we'd never been, so I turned to google and found a place called "Mormon Row". It's a place very common among tourist busses full of camera wielding Japanese tourists. It has to be spectacular, right?

Well... yes, and no.

Mormon Row, first off, is a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere that leads to an old barn and house. That's it. Nothing fancy about it. What makes it spectacular is the view. And I guarantee you, it's a view to die for! I'd live there in a heartbeat.

It was just too bad the Tetons were covered in a stubborn layer of clouds that just wouldn't budge. We did, however, see an antelope, a buffalo, a bald eagle, and two moose. And I took a butt-load of photos!