Greeters

A great evening drive

Mule deer; lots of doe with this year’s fawns and a few buck sporting impressive racks.  Prong horn antelope; some quietly grazing and other nervously watching as we drove by.  Bison; 100s of them wandering along the road and all around the car.  We could hear them snort and grunt and breathe heavily as they moved around us.

After dark, we headed out Iron Mountain Highway with it’s carefully placed narrow rock tunnels.  It is wonderfully dramatic when we turn a corner and the stark white form of four famous faces pops into view against the black night sky.  Mt Rushmore.  From this distance, at this elevation, we look nearly straight into their faces.  The shadows create a contrast that makes the features amazingly distinct.  It was worth the white knuckle ride through hairpin turns in the dark!