Daily Nature Fix: Alien Landscapes - Yellowstone. (Original Photos)

  Hi folks!  I'm burning the midnight oil here tonight.  That being said, I'm going to let the photographs of tonight's Daily Nature Fix do most of the talking.  Every time I browse the albums from our trips to Yellowstone National Park, it always amazes me how unbelievable some of the landscape features are.  Almost all of them are due to the geothermal activity in the park.  I'll be sharing a few of the most otherworldly images and caption them with what they are showing.  If you guys like these, I have enough to do another few series!  Okay, here we go:

^^^Look at this weird-ass hole in the ground  (not to be confused with a weird asshole). This is the Morning Glory hot spring.  If I recall, the signage there said the spring used to be an entire rainbow of colors, but douchebag tourist ruined that by throwing foreign objects in and changing the chemistry of the water.

^^^Microbial mats formed in some random hot spring run off.  I'm not sure exactly which one this was near.  I've featured parts of this photo in past "Abstract Nature" themed posts, and you can see why.  Quite the artist nature is!

^^^These are stone formations formed from thousands of years of mineral deposits from the enormous Mammoth Hot Spring in the north of the park.  It is actually a series of miniature "infinity pools" that trickle down to one another.  The white stone are extinct areas of water flow.  

^^^Another photo of the Mammoth Hot Spring formations.  You can see the water/pools in this photo better, as well as the stone formations that look like they belong in the movie Avatar.... or somewhere among a coral reef, at least.

^^^Another random hot spring area teeming with orange microbial life.  I'm not sure this one even had a name.  That's correct.  Yellowstone has SO many tiny bubbling and steaming hot springs that some of them don't even have names.  A lot of them come and go in relatively short periods of time as well.

^^^This brilliant blue gem and it's bright orange runoff is Silex Spring.  This one has a special place in my heart as it was the first spring I saw in the park that really blew my mind.  

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***Daily Nature Fix is a daily blog showcasing the natural world.  It is all original content using photos, stories, and experiences from my own travels.***