Picture Notes

These American Bison are in the North Dakota Badlands and a few males started snorting at me, I guess I was getting too close.

This is a kind of apology for misnaming the South Dakota Badlands as North Dakota. North Dakota has their own Badlands in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, part of the North Dakota Grasslands. North Dakota is another place of pleasant surprises as I’d never thought of it as cowboy country and it seems every rock and out crop has appeared in a Hollywood western movie, it’s great, like coming home. It is also the largest producer of wheat in the United States, or so the Welcome to North Dakota brochure goes. Tomorrow is dinosaur bones day.

A couple of wild American Icons on the range in Yellowstone National Park. This is the west side, close to Montana. I have a few more photographs of these two but thought this worked ok. Most people should get what they are. Right now the Bison are between summer and winter coats and look a little patchwork. It’s been 39 years since I was last here and in those years Yellowstone Park has become a human zoo with as many as 1000 people waiting to see not quite so “old faithful.” It’s nice to see the wild animals wandering around. The trout have remained too stubborn to catch so far.