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| Sage Creek Wilderness - Badlands National Park |
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| Sage Creek Wilderness - Badlands National Park |
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| Painted Lady Butterfly |
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| Orange - harvest haze at sunset |
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| Yellow - Aspen leaves |
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| Blue - Downy gentian wildflower |
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| White - Great Plains Ladies-tresses orchid |
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| Red - Common serviceberry leaf |
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| Northern Black Hills highlands in late September |
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| Northern Black Hills highlands in late September |
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| Vanocker's Canyon Road |
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| Mirrored September sunset |
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| Dewdrops on spiderweb |
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| Late sunlight through a seedling |
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| Fogbow reflected |
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| Dewdrops on tall grass |
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| Big bluestem florets |
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| Lesser fringed gentian |
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| Blue butterfly on great blue lobelia |
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| New England aster |
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| Grass of parnassus bloom |
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| Regal fritillary |
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| Bottle gentian |
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| Regal fritillary and Monarch butterfly on blazing star |
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| Snapper turtle close-up |
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| Frog's reading lamp - more commonly known as One-flowered Pyrola |
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| Broad-lipped Twayblade Orchid |
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| Western Prairie Fringed Orchid with crab spider |
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| Black Swallowtail butterfly |
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| White-tailed fawn |
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| Regal Fritillary on blazing star flower |
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| Bumblebee on blazing star |
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| Bobolink on blazing star |
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| Monarch Butterfly on blazing star |
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| Butterfly butt |
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| Northern lights over headlights |
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| Bear Butte after a prairie thunderstorm |
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| West River sunset |
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| Prairiesmoke wildflower |
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| Milky Way over Cave Hills Lutheran Church |
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| Yellow Lady's slipper orchid |
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| Wildflower deluxe |
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| Full rainbow after the storm |
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| Abandoned house with rainbow |
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| Clouds after the storm over Highland Lutheran |
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| Spotted coral root orchid |
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| Prickly Pear Cactus blooms |
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| Sunset clouds over the Falls of the Big Sioux |
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| Rain shower over Badlands National Park |
Spring came late to South Dakota in 2022 so May was quite the month. From finding first flowers on the plains and in the draws to massive wind and rain storms across the wide open sky... The great outdoors seemed a little wilder than other years. As they say, bad weather makes for great photographs, and I can't argue with that. Here are a dozen favorite photos from May. Some showing the smaller details of spring on the prairie and others showing the vast views that can take one's breath away. Click on an image for a larger file to view and thanks for checking in!
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| First cherry blossoms of spring |
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| Bumblebee on plum brush |
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| Carolina anemone |
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| Canada Warbler |
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| Sunlight lighting a rain shaft receding over Badlands National Park |
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| Double rainbow over an abandoned home |
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| Kinnikinnick or red bearberry blossoms |
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| Spotted mission bells also called chocolate lilies |
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| Prairiesmoke in light rain |
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| Bighorn sheep ewe |
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| Derecho cloud with dust |
