In my backyard this week.

 Lots of fun things happening around the quad this summer.  "Friends" showing up around dusk and early in the morning.  We have lots of bluebirds hanging out and this deer comes down behind the apartment in the evenings. With this kind of a backyard you can expect the unexpected.  Last nights sunset was one of the best of the season.  When your living room glows with orange light, you grab the camera because it is bound to be a tremendous sunset.  Today the wind has picked up and storms have been all around but no rain here at the visitors center area.  Enjoy the photos.
You can catch photos from the park which include following the preparation from start to finish of fossils in the paleo lab on the park's Flickr page.  Click on the following links to check it out Badlands Park homepage  or Badlands Flickr page

Wow, the season is coming to a close already, where has the time gone!  One of the common threads you find with rangers is that they want to give to people, time, energy, information, service...blood.  Today was the park's blood drive and, yes, for the first time in my life I gave blood.  Not a bad experience but made much better by those who were there as support.  Thanks to those whose jokes made those minutes pass quickly, to the staff at the drive and to the others who came out to give.  You all rock!