Your Yellowstone Guide
√ helping you map out your YNP adventure
√ sharing life lessons from the trail
You’re in the right place.
- Are you planning a visit to Yellowstone?
- Are you an armchair traveler who would enjoy trekking across Yellowstone through the pages of a book?
- Do you need answers for your Yellowstone questions?
- Are you overwhlemed by everything you don’t know and some of what you do?
- Do you need some guidance to help you map out your Yellowstone adventure?
- Do you need a little hope for navigating everyday life by faith?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you’re in the right place.
I’m Natalie. I’m here to help and offer hope. And I’m glad you’re here.
Let’s go to Yellowstone.
Recent Posts
Pondering Life Outside Challenge
According to C.S. Lewis, “No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.” My grandma began schooling me in the wonders of the back garden early, when I was just a little girl. Among the...
Whether We Perceive It or Not
Cool mountain air drifted in through our open window, carrying high-pitched beeps and deep rumblings that broke into my slumber. I lay in the dark of our tiny room at the back of the lodge and tried to place it. A tractor? A road grater? I recognized that sound. I...
Winter Gifts and Graces
Regardless of what the thermometer reads today or tomorrow or next week, winter is winding down. I'll just repeat that, mostly because I need the reassurance. Winter is winding down. I need the reassurance because I believe something that isn't true: Everything will...
For When We Find Ourselves Waiting
Bundled against the sub-zero temperatures, we left the cozy warmth of our cabin to brave Yellowstone’s deep winter chill. At twelve below zero, the temperature was up seven degrees already that morning from the previous afternoon's negative nineteen. After fumbling...
The Spiritual Discipline of Expecting Delays and Great Scenery
Because of the invisible cord that ties writing to life, it is with some trepidation I acknowledge that my anticipated writing topics for the coming months center around a theme which can be summarized by a road sign, especially a road sign in a construction zone...
Beginning Again
Oh, I have something special to share with you today: a guest post from one of my favorite writers on the internet: Tresta Payne. I was encouraged and challenged by what she's offered here, and I hope you will be, as well. All creation groans for a new beginning, and...
Because Our Moments Matter {Steps Toward Making the Most of Them}
Cue the music. It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love. Every song you hear seems to say… I haven’t noticed the world falling in love, and if we were sitting down together to write that song this morning, the lyrics might play out a little differently....
Fall Notes
Fall is traditionally my favorite season. Its crisp leaves and cool air combine to make it a time I want to linger on indefinitely. This one is half-gone and I’ve kind of missed it. At least that’s what I thought before I took a look back. I haven’t missed anything....
When Christmas Surprises You
Dad and I crossed the steamy asphalt, melty ice-cream cones in hand. We’d driven cross-country to Yellowstone for a nature-writing seminar and stopped at Mammoth Hot Springs for two reasons: huckleberry ice cream and piano music. The ice cream was a sure thing. The...
Tracks and Transitions
Out west, our family sometimes stays in a cabin on a parcel of land plunked down in the middle of a national forest. There—with no cell service, no cable, and no wifi-- we watch the weather unfold in the sky rather than on radar. A couple of years back, a sunny...
Sparkling in an Unfamiliar Life
My great-grandma was a woman of summer. She kept a garden. She grew the flowers and vegetables that graced her table. She picked the berries that topped our ice cream. Once in a while I helped her in the garden or the berry patch and it always shocked me when she...
Christmas In August
Steamy air radiated from the asphalt as we crossed the road in front of the diner. Dad and I had traveled to Yellowstone for a nature writing seminar and a quick stop at Mammoth Hot Springs for an ice cream cone marked the transition from our leisurely tour of...
“There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it.”
~ Matthew Henry
