Travel Blog

Phil and I snagged three days off, so we're enjoying our first day of doing nothing. We haven't been up to much lately. Last week we headed up to Idaho Falls to check out the Bodies in Motion exhibit. We got there on the very last day it was going to be there, and I thought that meant that it would be empty. I'm not too bright, I guess, because it was so crowded that we could barely get our bodies in motion amidst the throng. But we're glad we went. It was interesting, and it gave us a great appreciation for the folks who pick the bodies apart for these exhibits. Talk about painstaking labor. I guess it was fitting that we went to see it on Labor Day.

Other than that, and letting Phil cut my hair off, we have been just going with the flow.

My pictures this time around are not so good, but I have excuses. First, they were taken at dusk, so there's that. And second, my closer-up lens is on the fritz and won't automatically focus for me. And I must not have as good an eye as I would like to think, because my manual focusing is just downright pathetic. But I did my best. The following moose were walking through our campground one evening. Two bulls and a cow. It's the time for love in the Tetons, and as one guide I read states, this is when the bulls tend their cows. I liked the wording on that. So refined. So enough chit-chat...onto the pics.

That's the little-racked fella. I always assumed a small rack meant a young moose, but a ranger told us that that's not necessarily the case. As a moose gets older, their dewlap size increases, which takes all the juice away from the antlers, so older moose have smaller racks. Who knew?

That one is where he was telling us to leave him alone.

And there was the rack I was waiting for. Unfortunately, this guy knew it, and did not cooperate with me at all. I have some nice butt shots, but not a good head shot.

And this last one is a really bad picture, but he just looked so cute, and was finally looking at me, that I decided to put it on here anyway.

Hopefully I'll get more chances for some good, closeup shots of a big-antlered moose before we leave. Until then, I'll practice on my focusing.