Detour

Again I digress - we've spent the last week camping in the Black Hills at our favorite US Forest campground at Bismark Lake. We visited all our favorite sites - but our favorite thing is to drive the Wildlife Loop in the late evening. This year was the very best for meeting the natives!



Spring must be the time for turkeys - it's the only time we've met them in the Black Hills. They were all over the place. Love in mind I think!



Mother love was also in evidence - hundreds of buffalo dotted the hills as they must have done in the distant past. The new calves romped and fed (at one point in the middle of the road stopping traffic for quite a while).



Antelope - very at home on the range - played everywhere. But this one just wanted to eat the pretty blue flowers. We saw a road sign once that said "Caution - antelope entering roadway at 55 mph." And they sure can move when they want to!













"Danger! Stranger!"
Sentinals raised the alarm while the babies rolled and wrestled and generally had a great time.









"I've always wanted a screened-in porch!"







What?









"Got Lunch?"










Ex-natives - mammoths, camels, lions & bears, Oh my!











"It gets mighty dry out here on the prairie!"