Some things you can’t capture in a photograph. You can try. We did our best . As I drove through Yellowstone, we stopped several times to take photos. Unbelievable scenery. Mountains of rock and brush, multicolor greenery stretched across acre upon acre of land. Clusters of bison and elk.
As a lifelong Jersey girl, what struck me the most was the mile after mile of open space. And we were just at the beginning of our road trip from Montana to Wyoming.
I’m a huge jigsaw puzzle person. We’ve always got a 1,000 piece one in the works on our dining room table at home. Now I know why there are so many puzzles of Yellowstone scenery and none is like the other. Because if you turn just a little to your right or left, or take a few steps forward or back, the scenery changes before your eyes. You notice something you didn’t see a minute before. A different colored tree, a lone deer, a tiny body of water. And each one is a masterpiece of nature.
As we headed back the way we came, the road curved and angled down a while. When it straightened, the site before me took my breath away. Just impossible to explain in a photo or even in words. Open terrain as far as we could see, with the town we were staying in at the bottom, all the buildings tiny dots.
It struck me then how small we are, in the space we take up and in the problems that keep us awake at night. I understood then much of this country I have yet to see, and how blessed I am to have the opportunity to see a part of it I have never seen before.
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