We had 3 days of snowfall heavy at times but enough melting between each onslaught that it has pretty well melted around town but the high country had a lot to add to what is there.  Today is supposed to be the beginning of a warming trend that will bring that snow out of the mountains.  The Natl Guard will be in town tomorrow and I hear my place is a priority for sandbagging.  It will be an interesting week.

Day befor Memorial Day and it is snowing heavily.  My house has a good 4 inches of snow clinging to everything.  Trees and brush are bowed low by the heavy wet snow.  It all is adding to the incredible amounts in the mountains that one day has to come down river.  My plan is to start bringing sandbags to the house that are being filled at the town garage

Elk are everywhere and I run into bands like this everywhere I go out of Dubois.  Yesterday I drove up the Horse Creek road north of town and was stopped at the top of the divide between Horse Creek and the Wiggins Fork by a huge snow drift.  At this time of year that is unheard of.

Wildlife continue to be bottled up in the lower elevations due to the continued heavy snows and cold weather.  These two Moose wasted no time in putting distance between me and the top of the mountain.

Spring is trying to catch up with us though ever so slowly.  A few wildflowers are making their appearance and I was surprised to find this glacier lily growing amongst sagebrush and grasses.
By not being in Dubois yesterday you missed this.

Yesterday Dubois had a schedualed power outage all afternoon into the evening so we left a gloomy snow flurries falling day and went over the continental divide to Jackson Hole and the Tetons where the sun was shining and a lot warmer.  Watching and photographing wildlife and a picnic at Colter Bay.  It was a great day filled with many sightings of wildlife and waterfowl. 
Here a Moose trudges through melting snow along Pacific Creek.

Yesterday morning was one of those perfect spring mornings and at first light I was on Torrey Creek photographing a herd of avout 40 Bighorn Sheep.  There were 3 big rams with the bunch and I was able to get some great shots of them.  Across the creek were about a dozen elk grazing.  I have never seen elk there befor.  Over a hundred head of Deer were on the meadows and I watched the resident
Torrey Lake Ospreys doing nest work.  What a beautiful morning with not a soul anywhere around all morning.  I had the whole valley to myself.
This morning it is raining with snow falling again in the mountains.  What a change.