Panorama's don't show very well on the blog or on Facebook but I can't close out the top shots of the year without at least one from the trip to the Tetons, which we hit as we came south out of Yellowstone. Our views were mostly marred by smoke from the California wildfires this year, but with a little Photoshop trickery, I got a fairly decent shot the morning we were heading home. Hard to put such a beautiful panorama on a small digital negative as the experience of being there is so much better but this is my attempt. Like a lot of our trips to the national parks, the first visit just sets up the desire to go again and spend more time. A day and a half in the Tetons is just not enough to enjoy all of its beauty. The park is well deserving of its national park designation. It was quite a fight to get that designation and it took covert action by the Rockefeller family to secretly put the land together into one package--which then they donated to the Federal government, which didn't want it as the local landowners were objecting to the designation. Eventually, with the tourism picking up, they came around. Glad they did and hope you all get a chance to see this wonderful area.
