Dinos and Diesels
Wall, South Dakota
2016

Downtown Wall
Wall, South Dakota
2016

Wall Drug (in the lower right hand corner of the photo) may be the biggest tourist attraction in Wall, but it’s not the biggest attraction to the eye when first arriving on the main drag.

To 90
Wall, South Dakota
2016

Another set of grain elevators in downtown Wall, South Dakota.

Steel Pinnacles
Wall, South Dakota
2016

The regular shapes of the grain elevator in Wall present an interesting contrast to the randomly eroded pillars and pinnacles of the neighboring Badlands.

Get Lost
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

It wouldn’t be hard to do.

Lay of the Land
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

I thought it was interesting the way the skeletal form of the dead plant mimicked the cracks in the mud.

Erosion
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

They say the Badlands erode at the rate of about 1/2″ a year. That got me to wondering how high they were 100 years ago and how high they would be 100 years from now. But then I realized that while their elevation relative to sea level would change, their local height (measured from the bottom of one of the formations to its top) might not. In fact it might even increase depending on whether the gullies and washes between the formations erode faster or slower than the formations themselves. That’s something I should have asked about when I was in the visitor’s center I guess.

Knife Edge
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

Black and Blue #3
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

Black and Blue #2
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016