More Reflections on Yellowstone

The following are some interesting "signs" we saw during our visit to Yellowstone. 

This first sign is common near hot springs and geysers. Some are signed more elaborately. They have long descriptions of why the ground is unstable, how hot and acidic the water is, and how many people have been maimed or killed by disregarding basic geyser basin safety or by being unlucky. Some signs even contain graphic illustrations of children falling through the thin crust of ground and into the seething springs of boiling acid water below. This one is more simple.

The interesting thing is that the animals tend to disregard the signs, evidenced by their footprints and droppings all over the geyser and hot spring areas, as shown below. Also evidenced by the "macabre," according to our guidebook,  story of the young bison which fell into a hot spring, leaving a lingering smell of beef soup for a week.

The next photo is the petrified tree of Yellowstone. Note how it is surrounded by a fence and locked gate. This tree used to be three trees, but people, who can't keep their hands off God's special trees, reduced the three trees to just this one. Hence the fence, so in our more sensible moments, we protect creation from ourselves.

So this one is just funny. It was pretty big:

We laughed the most about this one, but we were disappointed. It was supposed to be a nice drive: