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"...If a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows,
passes over your hands and over all you do,
You must think that something is
happening with you
That Life has not forgotten you,
That it holds you in its hand,
It will not let you fall."
Rainier Maria Rilke, "Letters To A Young Poet"
Our Summer Vacation -
July - August, 2009
The Badlands
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| Badlands |
Custer State Park, South Dakota
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| Antelope at Custer |
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| Buffalo. What, you were expecting reindeer at Custer? |
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| Small herd by road |
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| Buffalo Jam at Custer. We waited 20 minutes while these guys wandered back and forth across the road |
| Family of wild burros |
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| The burros of Custer were abandonded by prospectors in the late 1800s. Today they are feral. |
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| This baby can't wait to get to the picnic table. He wants to eat NOW, Mom! |
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| Wild turkeys. Fred went nuts! We didn't have any cranberry sauce! |
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| Custer State Park landscape |
Mammoth Site, Mammoth Hot Springs, South Dakota
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| mammoth greets visitors to the Mammoth Site |
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| this is the most complete skeleton still under excavation at this time. |
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| Sign reads: Murray's Neck. OK, who was Murray? |
Dowdy Lake State Park, Colorado
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| Dowdy Lake |
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| Glo, Lauren, Icee and Smudge at Dowdy Lake |
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| The Dittmann ladies on a hike. Nancy, Lauren and Glo. Dowdy Lake |
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| Fred with Emmy, Icee and Smudge. Dowdy Lake |
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| Weird rock formation in Dowdy Lake |
Grand Lake, Colorado
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