Friday, August 30, 2013

Flora, Fauna and Other Interesting TidBits

Rapid Creek in one of the many parks along its banks 


Green grass and trees and blue, blue sky


A deer running on the road in front of the van in Whitewood SD


These little purple (yes, purple) flowers were blooming everywhere


A mountain goat (momma) watching her baby (next photo
along the road in Custer State Park


Her baby was on a ledge above and next to the highway.
Momma did not care about the traffic, only her baby.


A solitary, contented bull bison in a meadow in Custer State Park


Pronghorn antelope in Wind Cave National Park


Some Angus cattle watched us drive through their range land


An old vehicle lying on its side in a pasture. 
I know there is a story behind it.


Did you know The Needles were the first chosen area for the 
carving of Mt. Rushmore? If I knew, I did not remember.
Now I know the purpose for the mining of feldspar and mica.


Sign seen near Buffalo Gap, the village
Jed Smith, the first white man in the area, encountered a grizzly bear near that spot.
He was killed by Comanches in 1831.


Interesting tree trunk at Sylvan Lake


Sleeping hippopotamus in Sylvan Lake


Little Crazy Horse rock formation along one of the many highways



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