Bad Wi-Fi prevented posting last night . . .
It’s been a long, jam-packed day, so I will let the pictures tell a little bit of the story. I say a little bit, because photos don’t begin to capture the grander, starkness, colors and uniqueness of the Badlands. Many of the formations look like castles or buildings enhanced by Antoni Gaudí. The stone texture looks like poured cement, but much of it is soft and crumbly. With symmetrical, red striations, it almost looks man-made like something in a Disney theme park.
The best of the two-part program with the park rangers was the session with the park astronomer. It was a treat to look through the 160X telescope, see the craters on the moon, the rings of Saturn, Jupiter and it’s moons and the amazing summer constellations in the incredible dark sky. It was a late night and we were tired, but even more astounded by what our beautiful country has to offer.
Corn Everywhere
Little House on the Prairie
This is some of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s territory. She and her family homesteaded in Desmet, SD, moving to and from a number of towns in the mid-west, sometimes when crops failed. In South Dakota, the Laura Ingalls-Wilder Memorial Society has preserved her family sites and have a variety of special programs celebrating her books and frontier life.
I just needed one more day . . .