Spring Anemone

Dear Spring,
I think I can speak for all that we eagerly anticipate your arrival this year! 

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Prairie Vistas

My birthday was this past weekend and it's tradition for my husband and I to take to the gravel and explore a road in our area that we don't get to travel much. Fortunately for us, most of the roads around here are gravel so we don't have to go far.
We wander around in search of the beauty and end up at one of my favorite restaurants for dinner. 

I love the prairie vistas as the evening shadows creep in. 

South Dakota is truly one of the most beautiful of our States. 
Raw beauty in all its form. 
As my husband says, "This is God's Country."

I love the layered lines in this image. Can you see what I mean? 

I can't ever remember celebrating my birthday in a sleeveless shirt. What a great present it was to have spring like weather that day instead of a blizzard.

To another year...

Frosted Horses

The frost this weekend was not only beautiful in the landscape but also with how it found the tails and manes of my horses.

Shadow's dark colors really popped out the white.

 I love Rock's ears and long flowing mane (and of course there's always some hay in it).

Eowyn settled down enough for me to capture some of her frost covered beauty.

Frosty Landscape

This past weekend we had some incredible frosty landscape. I wandered around my home in search of some beautiful images and this is what I came up with. 

Results of Night Shooting

This photo was taken well past sundown. A steady tripod (such as the Manfrotto 190XPRO that I use) and a long shutter speed create such results.
Don't let the dark stop you from shooting. There's a whole world of light to be discovered at night!

Located along the road near Devils Tower, driving towards Huelett, Wyoming.

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The Badlands

This past weekend I went hiking with a friend in the Badlands. It was the warmest day in weeks, a balmy 50 degrees! The clouds kept playing with us. It was bright blue one minute and then gray and brown tones the next. The colors of the Badlands are more vibrant in the spring and after it rains, but we still enjoyed with beauty of these incredible landforms. 

We started on the east end of Castle Trail, meandered off the trail a while and then continued on it. We then took the Medicine Root/Castle Trail loop with a lunch stop at Saddle Pass, totaling 6.6 miles. 

Taken from a peak near Saddle Pass.

My friend noticed this herd of big horn sheep. We crept closer and closer to them, watching them scurry over humanly impassable rocks (at least rocks I probably wouldn't have the nerve to try and climb).

 We also encountered several herds of deer.