Morning Air

Artwork ID # 2306-39125-53.

" So calm, so calm.../ At the edge of gray silken waters, / Like an afternoon with Monet. "

- " Becoming the Elk Now " from "Shards of Yellowstone " a work of poems created in 1991 - 1993 by Yellowstone National Park " writer-in-residence Katya Williamson.

A deep mist sliding by, right to left, over a wide open space in the Norris Geyser Basin. Then, suddenly there was startlingly clear blue sky radiating bright light which revealed the colors of blue-green and tan algae alive inside the groundwater heated by geothermal activity .

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