A single wild rose growing on an old-growth bush on the Hall family homestead property in Lutsen, MN.

The Badlands of South Dakota.  Awesome sight, like an alien landscape.

Sunrise at the Badlands National Park.  We were staying at the Cedar Pass Lodge at the bottom of the pass and this is what met us at sunrise the next morning.

The Yellow Mounds area of the Badlands scenic highway 240 route from Cactus Flat, SD to Wall, SD.

One of the wild buffalo herd we encountered – actually, the second large herd along a few miles of road in the Wildlife Loop off Highway 16 just east of Custer, South Dakota that goes through Custer State Park.

A stunning horse at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary near Hot Springs, South Dakota.

Sunset on our last night in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

This is a dahlia, Andries’ Orange (1936, rarest), that we got from H’s mom.

The patch of zennias in front of the black eyed Susans near our front walk and kitchen windows.

A patch of black eyed Susans by our kitchen window.