*Another fun-filled day in Glendive. Stephanie and I met Jamie and Liz at the Bloom Coffee Shop this morning for coffee and tea. If I still lived here, I think I could see myself spending a lot of time at this spot.
*At noon I met three wonderful women for lunch, Paula Schlepp Frank, Jen Hawkinson and Kerry O'Connor Burman. These three women were part of the youth group Paul and I were leaders of when we lived here at the Glendive Evangelical Church. All three live here in Glendive, and we have kept touch over the years here on Facebook, so it was wonderful to see them and find out what is going on in their lives. What a wonderful little reunion with these beautiful women. Each makes a positive impact on their families and their community in their own special way. Thanks for a great lunch girls!!!
*After lunch Stephanie, Jamie, Liz and I headed east to North Dakota to drive through the Teddy Roosevelt National Park. We had the pleasure of seeing prairie dogs in their little prairie dogs towns, some buffalo and some deer. We also saw a group of feral horses in a grove of trees that run wild in the park.
Prairie Dogs in Prairie Dog Town
"Prairie-dogs are abundant...; they are in shape like little woodchucks, and are the most noisy and inquisitive animals imaginable. They are never found singly, but always in towns of several hundred inhabitants; and these towns are found in all kinds of places where the country is flat and treeless." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Where the Buffalo Roam
"The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Mule Deer
"...lands, where the ground is roughest, and where there is some cover, even though scattered and scanty, are the best places to find the black-tail [mule deer]." ~Theodore Roosevelt
*We were in the park as the sun was setting, and I can’t even begin to describe the light covering the badlands. And the photos, unfortunately, do not do the beauty justice. But here are a few shots.
Sunlight on the badlands.
"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Badlands at sunset.
"Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Badlands Overlook.
"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life." ~Theodore Roosevelt
Group photo overlooking the beautiful badlands.
"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature." ~Theodore Roosevelt
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