Cody and the Big Horn Mountains

This morning we had breakfast with the Elders, Justin and Katie at the "Main Street Over Easy".  Good breakfast and good visiting with these two remarkable young people.  Then we left Bozeman and headed for Cody, WY.  We observed a herd of Buffalo just out of Bozeman.  The rolling hills were so nice and green and as we headed east, we thought," How beautiful is this big sky country!"  It was 63 degrees and no wind as we left on our today's leg of travel.  We saw many, many antelope herds in the fields along side the road and an occasional coyote looking for its breakfast.  We left I-90 at Laurel and headed south toward Cody. 
In Cody, we visited with some dear friends who've had some health heart problems.  Sharon just had open heart surgery and Buck just had a mild attack.  Both are doing well now.  We didn't stay long as we didn't want to tire them out during their healing processes.
We passed an oil refinery as we turned south so close we could smell it and almost touch it.....many cracking towers were busy separating the many oil products from the crude. 
We pushed on and observed some weathered mining equipment along side of one hill.  The sign by the road was a historical site that described this as the Smith Mining disaster from early years.  This was just outside of the town of Red Lodge.
As we drove we saw the Beartooth Mts. in the distance bordered on the front by deep green alfalfa fields.

With Justin and Katie Elder

The Smith Mining Disaster site.

         The Bear tooth Mts.                                                                                    

Then it was across the Big Horn Basin and up through the Big Horn Mts.  The Aspen tree glowed bright orange and yellow indicating that fall had already arrived in the Big Horns.  The pass level was 9033 Ft. at Granite Pass.  And after about 25 miles of 8 percent grade, we were back on I-90 and Sheridan, WY.