<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Permit me to introduce myself. My name is John Taliaferro. I am an author, living half the year in Austin, Texas, half in Paradise Valley, 40 miles north of YNP. Over the years, I have been an intermittent reader of the <EM>Sput </EM>and an avid if untutored admirer of the park's geothermal wonders. I have recently finished a book (set in Alaska -- <EM>In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898</EM>), and at last I have reached a point in my life and career where I am able to devote more attention to my steamy neighbors. I'll be at the Snow Lodge on March 7-8 for some cross-country skiing. I'm eager for any suggestions on particular geysers or gazers I might introduce myself to while there. I've been following the e-mail traffic on this site for the past couple of weeks (especially re: Steamboat) and would like to think that one day I might be able to contribute a worthy observation of my own. Respectfully, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">John Taliaferro</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">P.O. Box 9</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Pray, MT 59065</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">406-333-4109</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><A href="mailto:johntalia@starband.net">johntalia@starband.net</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>