Welcome Wagon
16 December 09
— Rick Silletti
Back in the park for the winter season, should be a good one. The Mammoth Hot Springs variation on a door greeter crossed the road in front of me not two hundred yards from my door. It`s good they aren’t much larger than a small horse!
Chilly
15 November 09
— Rick Silletti
Nothing quite like that special kind of chilly here! It’s that time again.
My Wand
14 November 09
I have a wand now;
I have it for my service,
For my silence,
For my skill at emptiness.
I wave my wand as he did, and I await!
I wave my wand as he did,
And yet the magic doesn’t come
As I was told it would.
My wand was his once,
His that he made magic with.
The magic that he made before he passed that is,
The magic that I should have now for my service.
Oh how I wished that magic were mine;
So much that I served to get it when he passed.
And though I wave it as he did, the magic doesn’t come,
Forever and a day the magic doesn’t come.
And so I sit, or stand, or stray a little here and there;
But never to leave, or go to my peace – and wave my wand
That I so dearly craved though the magic never comes
As I was told it would, and dwell forever upon my deed.
— Rick Silletti
Off the grid
11 October 09
— Rick Silletti
Season’s over here at Mammoth Hot Springs, the elk know it and are reclaiming some of their favorite haunts. Me, I’m goin’ off the grid for a couple months – have fun all!
New Arrival
8 September 09
— Rick Silletti
I’m only guessing at what’s on those tines, but this guy is laying back for now while a younger, smaller bull is displaying most of the activity and aggression – in the end I’m thinkin it’s all about attitude with the elk rut, and the younger bull has that in spades.
He has been so active that it’s been hard to get a shot of him, stays off the location during the day – probably to avoid the traffic he isn’t used to, then makes a nuisance of himself all night :(
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