Friday Photos

Some memories of South Dakota

Prairie dogs

Wild burros spooked by the buffalo roundup

Wary pronghorn antelope

Watch your step!

Sunflower

Roundup Riders

Baby bison

Riding toward the horizon

Crazy Horse & Badlands

Crazy Horse Memorial is a huge sculpture

depicting an Indian warrior.

The sculpture was started in 1948 and is funded by private donations.

Currently only the head of Crazy Horse is done.

If completed, it will be the largest sculpture in the world.

There's still a long way to go.

On to the Badlands

 Where you can look for miles and see no sign of civilization.

 Erosion exposes millions of years in time.

 A moonscape of pinnacles & spires

Traveling Needles Highway

Needles highway in Custer State Park is a beautiful drive.

Sylvan Lake

 The eye of the Needle

Black Hills scenery

There were several tight tunnels to go through

 A tight squeeze for the tour buses

We made it through!

Thanks Les!

 South Dakota is one of the prettiest states I've been in.

Mighty Bison

 And you hate going to your annual health check up?

Yeehaw! Round 'em Up!

By now you've probably figured out that I am in beautiful

South Dakota.

We are here for the annual buffalo round up in Custer State Park.

The buffalo are rounded up annually for branding, vaccinating & sorting.

So lets go!

Here they come!

 

 Down the hill

Kickin' up dust

Across the plains

Through the gate

Towards the corrals

 

 Picking up strays

Happy horses & cowpokes

Over 1100 buffalo were rounded up this year.

Great Americans

George

Thomas

Abe

Teddy

Four great Americans immortalized in stone.

Friday Photos

Teasel

Burr Oak Bend Nature Preserve
on the White River

Water filled leaf

Old fence post

The big guy

Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

(as sung to the Christmas carol)

Its beginning to look a lot like Autumn

All along the trails

Yellow & crimson leaves,

A cool refreshing breeze

And fragrant hay all cut and stacked in bales.

Its beginning to look a lot like Autumn

The days are growing short

Pumpkins, gourds & ghosts,

Campfires & wiener roasts

And mom is baking goodies of all sorts!

Its beginning to look a lot like Autumn

  The birds begin to soar,

So go outside & see

the wonders there may be,

 
outside your own back door!