The Wasteland

Vast barren, dusty, sulfurous wastelands?? I think this calls for some Eliot....my English professors would be so proud...

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,

You cannot say, or guess, for you know only

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,

And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,

And the dry stone no sound of water. Only

There is shadow under this red rock,

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),

And I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

(from The Burial of the Dead...the first section of The Wasteland......I love those last few lines)

Alright, enough of that lol.....obviously not all of Yellowstone is a wasteland (quite the contrary) but sections of it definitely earned the title...this little guy below looks like a face

hahaha this illustration on the sign is hilarious. it's for warning people not to wander away from the trails in the thermal areas because the ground is just a thin crust and you might break through into scalding hot water...the lady is freaking out (yet making no signs of assisting the boy) and the guy in the background isn't even pretending to care haha

definitely not like a wasteland....all the colorful bacteria in the super hot thermal pools....i think this is the morning glory one

hiking on a rainy day!