We are still on Eastern Time (despite being in Mountain Time terrain), so we keep waking up very early. A little Badlands history: For centuries, humans have viewed South Dakota's Badlands with a mix of dread and fascination. Early trappers called the area les mauvaises terres a traverser. This means "bad lands". Conservation writer Freeman Tilden described the region as "peaks and valleys of delicately banded colors - colors that shift in the sunshine...and a thousand tints that color charts do not show. In the early morning and evening, when shadows are cast upon the infinite peaks or on a brigh moonnlit night when the whole regions seems part of another world, the Badlands will be an experience not easily forgotten".
As we circled the plains, we were breathless in it's beauty. "I've been about the world a lot, and pretty much over our own country" wrote architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, "but I was totally unprepared for that revelation called the Dakota Badlands....What I saw gave me an indescribable sense of mysterious elsewhere - a distant architecture, ethereal......an endless supernatural world more spiritual than earth but created out of it".
The pictures below cannot begin to explain the beauty of what we have seen today. It has been a truly spectacular 24 hours.....and we hope to see the sunset tonight if the winds will die down.
A great investment for this trip: Our Crocs!
"honey, what's for supper? Why Buffalo burgers, of course!"
A few shots of the town of Interior, SD.
This is real!
The "walmart" in town. Unfortunately, they didn't have any hummus or tabouli! (but a variety of liquor). We did buy the buffalo burgers there.
A community health nurse is always interested in the city schools.....
Now for some scenery:
If we keep our voices silent, all creation will rise and shout. If we fail to praise You, Father, then will the very rocks cry out!
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2 comments:
I'm so proud of you, you're actually taking pictures, you figured out the self timer AND you're writing history and poetry!
Yes, and I learned it all from my beautiful daughter in law! The timer was pretty easy to use. Stay tuned for more!
I hope the first weeks of grad school are wonderful. I know you are working hard while your husband plays golf! I know the feeling....
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