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The Road to Yellowstone

I started my road trip from Connecticut on February 23rd and arrived for my 2nd season in Yellowstone National Park on March 25th.

The Photographs that follow are from this trip.

"Beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”

― Erol Ozan

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount

I got to keep moving
I got to keep rolling
Got to keep riding
Down the midnight highway
Got to keep moving
Got to keep rolling
Got to keep riding
All night long
Down the midnight highway

Every where I look
I see some green grass
Every where I look
I see a secret smile

An excerpt from the song "Midnight Highway" by Quinn Sullivan

"Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories?

-Nathan Reese Maher

“I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally...”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

''There was nothing but land, not a country at all, but materials out of which countries are made."

-Willa Cather

“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names... Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts and cultures, left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

"....and I ask him again

the name for the color of water
wanting to be able to say it
as though I had known it all my life
without giving it a thought."

— W.S. Merwin, from his 1988 book The Rain in the Trees.

Cloud spotting

John Constable declared that a painter "who does not make skies a very material part of his composition-neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aid's and his chief organ of sentiment."

"....a small western town with few dreams and absolutely no illusions."

- M.R. Montgomery

“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”
― Elizabeth Berg

I look forward to sharing another season in the Greater Yellowstone Region.

David Gallipoli