A Pot of Gold On Top of the Badlands
As if the Badlands in South Dakota aren’t breathtaking enough, a rainbow highlights what’s on top: a tidy color display that alternates from dark black-and-blue coal stria to bright clays to reds. The South Dakota Badlands are certainly not the only ones of their kind in the world: find them in Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Alberta, Argentina, Spain, New Zealand and elsewhere. But the Badlands of South Dakota have drawn me in nearly every decade of my life, and rewarded me for my loyalty on my last visit with a spectacular rainbow that got right to the point. ♣
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This is beyond beautiful!
Thank you so much, Dina! Right place, right time.
Inspiring!
I appreciate your comment. Thank you.
Amazing
Thank you.
Glorious
Thanks for your compliment.
Lovely, lovely photo. We love the Badlands, too, and go by them every summer on the way to and from Wyoming. Sometimes we go through and it’s always magical.
janet
Thanks for letting me know, Janet, I appreciate your comments. If you have some links to your magical moments in the Badlands, please share them.
GREAT capture! I need to spend more time in the Badlands!
Thanks, Maya, truly I think the Black Hills are way more lovely than the Badlands, but the weather that one afternoon I was there really rewarded me!