Natalie Ogbourne

true on the trail • true in life

Waking Up in the Wilderness Book Cover

Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey

Are you an armchair traveler, outdoor adventurer, or national park enthusiast? Are you ready to trek across Yellowstone through the pages of a book?

If so, this may be the book for you.

It’s more than an adventure story about  me and my family doing what we love in a place we love with people we love. It’s a sign pointing beyond all that and saying, “Look at this!” so you can see what there is to see for yourself.

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Postcard from Yellowstone: Bobby Socks Trees

Postcard from Yellowstone: Bobby Socks Trees

Once upon a time, I worked in Yellowstone—at the Old Faithful Inn Gift Shop, where I spent part of each day restoring the great wall of postcards. These days, the postcard wall is smaller, which makes meYo sad. Postcards are more than souvenirs. They’re a way of looking at the small stuff, of noticing and sharing why a place matters. With that, a...

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Postcard from Yellowstone: Mallard Lake

Postcard from Yellowstone: Mallard Lake

Postcards. They're more than a souvenir. More than a way to say Thinking of you! or Wish you were here! They're a way of seeing and sharing. Small by design, a postcard from Yellowstone can capture a moment. In that spirit, for you: A postcard from Yellowstone Hi there! Sitting on the shore of Mallard Lake, I realized we hadn’t seen another soul...

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Lesson from Yellowstone: From Old Faithful to Every Day Life

Lesson from Yellowstone: From Old Faithful to Every Day Life

I have a love-hate relationship with paper. I’ve never met a notebook, or a post-it note, or a planner I didn’t like. At the same time, I have no idea how to manage the mountains of paper that find their way into my home. Because my husband is efficient, process-minded, reasonable, and, above all, kind, he was helping me go through some papers...

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Waking up in the Wilderness is honored to be included in the Inspired by Yellowstone Artist Series.

“There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it.”

~ Matthew Henry