Keeping it Weird in Texas

Keep Austin Weird Festival  is a celebration of the people, places and businesses that make Austin a vibrant, eclectic and progressive creative center. This June there will be one blowout party full of music, tons of fun family activities, weird, wacky costumes and local vendors eager to reflect the creative nature of Austin, Texas.

Bring your creative side, your appreciation for the great city of Austin and a desire to have fun.

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Amazing cosmic coloured convolutus

Convolutus is the Latin name for the morning glory flower and this is what Mrs E. named this hot spring pool  in 1883!

Mrs. E. N. McGowan was married to Charles McGowan, the Assistant Park Superintendent at Yellowstone National Park in the United States.  

By 1889 Convolutus was being called the Morning Glory Pool or Morning Glory Spring.

It is a wonderful example of the geothermal features of Teton County, Wyoming which also include geysers such as the infamous Old Faithful.  Over the years the colours of the Morning Glory spring change due to the algae and the temperature.

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