Just when you think you've seen it all you decide to take a day trip to the Grand Teton National Park and you're blown away all over again by the beauty of this region!

Again, we picked the most gorgeous, sunny day to do this, not a cloud in that sky!

After entering Yellowstone Park via the West entrance again we drove south to the North entrance of the Tetons.

Passing the 'Moose Falls' in the Lewis River:




And our first peak of Jackson Lake with the Teton Range as a stunning background:

We took a little hike around the historic Jackson Lake Lodge. These are The Willow Flats where you can often see wildlife:

Unfortunately no animals were present but the view was incredible enough to make up for it.

         South teton, Middle Teton, Grand Teton and Tweeninot Mtn. 

Since the Tetons have no foothills there's not much that obstructs your view.    

                                          

Grand Teton, 13770 feet

Fields of lupine color the, aptly named, 'Lupine Meadows' in front of the 'Grand Teton' mountain, a beautiful blue.

 

  

              

At other places the Camas Lily (on the right) provides almost the same color. 
This bulb was a favorite and important food source of the Nez Perce Indians who inhabited this area.

We drove up the 5 mSignal Mountain Summit Road for a peak of the Snake River that winds it's way through the valley that's called 'Jackson Hole'.

The slopes of the top of the mountain were completely covered with arrowhead Balsamroot.

A beautiful spot for a nice lunch and to stretch our, and Sadie's, legs.  
Can you believe it, it was almost too warm to sit in the sun!

Down the mountain again we headed towards Jenny Lake and drove the small one-way scenic road that skirts the lake.

By now, the afternoon wind was picking up so we missed out on any of the beautiful lake reflections that I had seen pictures off and had wanted to see for myself. Oh well. Maybe next time!

 

This elk cow actually had a very tiny newborn calf with her but it was lying down and didn't get up until we had to drive away because of traffic behind us.

 Leaving the park we came back through Jackson (a town we will leave for another time to visit) and took the, in parts very steep (10%!), Teton pass (8431') towards Victor and eventually Rexburg.

We took care of our monthly grocery shopping spree at the Rexburg Walmart.  Unfortunately this is not a 'Super' Store so we also had to go to the next door Albertsons.  I hate to go to 2 different stores!

Anyhow, it took us 2 1/2 hours! Holy cow!

It made for a very long day!

Talking about cows, while we were gone the ranch next door moved their cows into 'our' meadow for the summer season. As you can see they look right into our rig!

Very country!

Merlin (bottom right) is not too sure about them!