by Janet Jones | Aug 8, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style
The Story Behind the Artwork: Wyoming Storm I took the photo that created the base for this Digital Photo Watercolor (a photo transformed digitally using 3 different software programs, a pen, and time) in 2011 while on a trip to Cody to visit family before moving here...
by Janet Jones | Jun 13, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style
The Story Behind the Art: Western Horizons Layers of mountains have always caught my eye. While growing up, my family passed around the book, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains – the Western travel adventures of Isabella Bird in the late 1800s. In the...
by Janet Jones | May 23, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style, Play & Travel, Yellowstone
Harlequin Ducks at LeHardy Rapids: Yellowstone’s Most Striking Spring Visitors Harlequin ducks migrate to Yellowstone each spring to breed. Stopping at the convenient-to-observe location of LeHardy Rapids, birders and photographers flock to the area to see them each...
by Janet Jones | May 16, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style
The Story Behind the Art: Black Pool Layers of colors show in an arch as they descend to the depths of Black Pool at West Thumb Geyser Basin. It was originally named Black Pool when dark microbes lined the hot spring’s crater. Why is it called Black Pool when...
by Janet Jones | May 2, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style
The Story Behind the Click: A Splash From Grotto Geyser Grotto Geyser has such a fascinating shape, and because the boardwalks and trails allow access to various sides of it, it becomes an attractive thermal feature for photographers. The shape was likely formed when...
by Janet Jones | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured Artists, Life & Style
The Story Behind the Click: “Red Dog” Before living in Cody, I often spent a week or two in West Yellowstone before it became crowded. On an early morning drive to the Old Faithful area, I came upon a large group of buffalo cow/calf pairs. They were moving...
