Nebraska-Dakota 2014 Part 7

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Nebraska-Dakota 2014 Part 7

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For lake people.
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You can’t see the forest for the grass.
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Here is another one of those pictures where I selected and did a lens blur on the too-busy background. Twice.
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Another lake shot.
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This wildflower is Dalmatian Toadflax. I cheated with a few copy-and-paste actions. Well, flowers don’t grow in those vases, either!
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One interesting feature of this lake picture is the super-tall rock wall in the middle.
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Almost like a teething ring.
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“This is my road!"
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“You want to read the sign? You can wait."
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“Where should we go for lunch?"
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Bison and prairie dogs.
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“The flowers are a nice touch, Mabel."
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How fortuitous. The American Bison has just been officially designated as the national mammal of the United States. All the pictures this week feature this animal.

Here we have two mamas with their babies.
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The image blends into itself.
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Resting is always a good idea.
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“Am I on the right path?"
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Many bison and a few prairie dogs.
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Wonderful animals, nice trees and pretty flowers. What more can one ask?
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All is calm except for one dust bunny.
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I think this one is listening to music.
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We’ve already seen buffalo, but aren’t those trees nice?
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Notice all the babies here.
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This one just fell off of a penny.
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Cars? What cars?
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Time to say goodbye to the bison.
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Last picture of the day.
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It is a new day (8/22/14). We’ll start off with a few flowers.
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Now this is a really big drugstore.
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It must be a famous place.
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They even have a church space. A rather narrow space.
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Lots of things to see.
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The church space has a name.
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We found a few books.
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The totem is wondering why his picture is being taken.
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So you can find drugs in this backyard?
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Now there’s a rabbit for you.
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We’re still wandering around the big Wall Drug Store.
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Really nice flower.
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I wonder if he hibernates in a log.
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These are even prettier.
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My husband has a new girlfriend.
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What a cutie! I asked his parents if I could take his picture.
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My son is checking grandma’s hand.
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If I didn’t take pictures of signs like this, I’d never know where we were. I wonder what those hair-like things on top of the sign are.
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Can’t do nothin’ around here.
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Where do you think this path might go?
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If you look closely, you can see mountain goats. Or whatever they are called.
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I see one. Maybe two or three.
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But if you count them, you will fall asleep.
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We’re still walking around in this area of the Badlands. After a while, we noticed being bothered by something unpleasant.
It turned out to be the tiniest gnats ever. You couldn’t see them, but you could certainly feel them.

Maybe these mountain goats/sheep/whatever use bug spray.
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They know how to rest.
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This must be their “house."
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If I find anything that resembles a flower...
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You can do a “Where’s Waldo” with the sheep here.
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Closer view of the scene above.
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The bighorns be everywhere.
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His home is the proverbial hole in the wall.
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I can think of better places to nurse a baby.
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Their home is decorated nicely.
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I wonder what Dad does for a living.
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The neighborhood is nice.
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Found more flowers.
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Doesn’t this look like a giant zipper, holding the two sides of the mountains together?
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Another difficult golf course.
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Interesting how a particular, “thin” layer will stretch horizontally across all the hills/mountains it encounters.
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Pretty flowers.
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This one started out as a landscape, unlike the one above.
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Same flowers, with a visitor.
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I shot this one from a moving vehicle. Kind of surprising to see a person on a hill.
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I wonder what caused the bathtub ring.
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The juice from this one probably wasn’t worth the squeeze.
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There’s a certain beauty in parched ground.
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Even the road is kind of attractive.
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Badland colors can be bad all by themselves.
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The road seems tiny in comparison.
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A little grass to offset those unrelenting, horizontal lines.
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“I’m here, too!” Can’t overlook the little sunflowers.
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Almost as if from an airplane.
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They do go on.
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Is that salt? White sand?
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Another opportunist.
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If you like fences, this one is for you.
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Where to begin...
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Such struggles must be documented.
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Shot from a moving vehicle.
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