Tower-Roosevelt - Yellowstone NP

Leaving the Mammoth Hot Springs area, we followed the road east towards the Tower-Roosevelt section of the park.  We didn't get very far when I noticed some bright yellow aspen on a hillside in the distance.  I pulled the car over and got out to get a better look...

...because the trees had grown to form the shape of a heart!  How neat is that :)?!

Back on the road, we drove until we came to Undine Falls...

...then on across the Blacktail Deer Plateau.  Here we saw the first Bison of the day...

around the next curve we spotted a big group of his friends

From here, we decided to follow the road south towards the heart of the park instead of east towards Lamar Valley.  We passed through the most beautiful aspen grove...

...and then we stopped at the Tower Fall pull-out.  Instead of trekking off to see the waterfall, we quietly made our way in the other direction to get a look at these beauties...

Do you see them?  They were camouflaged quite well...

a little baby!

While walking towards the Bighorn sheep, we noticed that there was a canyon that fell away from the ridge we were on...

There were trails, so we followed one of them for a ways...

The Yellowstone River Canyon...

...we would see it again at the Canyon Village section of the park, but first we had to cross Dunraven Pass...