Just a little sprinkle on the top, please...

On Monday, while we were coming up from Nebraska and spending the day at Wounded Knee, the Badlands, and Wall Drug, it was snowing on other parts around here. Jackie heard a lady on the telephone at Wall say that it had snowed a foot at Mt. Rushmore. But we didn't see any of it that day.

Yesterday, because it was so sunny, we decided to go to Spearfish Canyon. It's the prime reason we're here, and we wanted to take advantage of a sunny day. What we didn't know at the time we set out was that it would be drop-dead gorgeous with the yellow aspens, the green pines, the black hills, and the smattering of white snow.









Spearfish Peak

We wound through already-snowplowed highways up to the town of Spearfish, ate lunch at the Cedar House, and came back on I-90 to Rapid City, then set out again, this time to the south and Custer State Park. At Custer, we saw more beautiful scenery, pronghorn antelope, bison, and deer. And we got off the pavement and went down a couple of the dirt roads of the state park, Oak Draw and Lame Johnny. (I do wonder who that one is named after.) It was all beautiful.






This was Lame Johnny road.

We came back at sunset and washed the car -- it was sooo nasty from the snow and the salt on the highways and the muddy roads! Then we spent a few minutes in the whirlpool and headed up to bed!