The Yellowstone Trip Back in August of 2010, Patti and I took a trip with Amy and Aaron to a number of national parks and other memorable places on the way to Yellowstone and Grand Teton. These included the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills, Wind Cave, and Medicine Wheel National Historic Site. The Badlands are well-named. They are other-worldly bad. Over-the-top bad. But beautiful as well in their own stark and sere way. We took them in, and drove on down the road. Next stop, Mount Rushmore, the iconic faces of Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln peering down from their mountain home. Per the brochure, it took six years to carve the faces in the cliff, six years spread over the fourteen years it took to raise the million dollars for the project. The faces are up to six stories high from chin to crown. Taking a road off to the side of the mountain, we caught a different camera angle, the side of Washington’s face. We had a bri...
Spring Sunrise The golden sun creates shafts of light through the budding trees. Brilliance showers down through green-gold leaves. Robins, little orange suns themselves, bounce through tiny blossoms of blue, A cardinal dips his bill in his favorite color, the red of raspberry jelly in the bird feeder. Sunlight sparkles on the surface of the pond, riffled by our resident mallards. A chipmunk surveys it all atop his favorite perch, the rock wall of the waterfall. Cottontails, four of them, chase each other in the mating ritual of spring. A beautiful start to a day in early May.
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