With thanks to Carl Sandburg.

Yellowstone National Park is full of unforgettable sights. Towering cliffs and plunging waterfalls. Geysers exploding up into the sky and azure springs all aboil with volcanic heat.

But sometimes it’s what you don’t see that truly mesmerizes.

On our first morning I awoke early to a dense fog shrouding Yellowstone Lake.

I wandered down to the shore.

And could barely make out distant figures wandering silently through the mist.

And could make out spider webs woven into the evergreens begin to glow in the first glimmers of light.

And watched as the rising sun slowly introduced color back into the world.

And the lake gradually emerge from the mist.

And the fog creep out. As though on little cat feet.
