day three

saturday morning started with a drive through sturgis, deadwood & lead. both this photo


and this one are from deadwood. from there we headed up to spearfish canyon.


found an old car or two on the side of the road along the way. so, of course, we stopped to take photos.


spearfish canyon & area were beautiful. we went to three different waterfalls - this one was my favorite. from where i was standing to take this photo i could feel the spray coming off the falls. absolutely fabulous.

after our drive back from spearfish canyon, we headed to the quilt shop. but, we found ourselves with a little extra time, and we just happened to be by this fabulous looking tattoo & piercing shop ...


so i took advantage of the opportunity to get my nose pierced. i know it's hard to see in this photo,


so here's an obscenely close-up photo to prove there's really a stud there. so far so good with the healing. i was told to wait 30 days before taking it out. i waited 3 - oops. :) i was drying my face one morning & got the stud caught in the loopies on my towel. it went back in without too much problem, though. and today it's comfortable enough that i forget it's there and then suddenly think i've lost it.

lost the stud, that is. not lost it as in lost it. i feel like that without reference to my new facial adornment. ;)


we walked around part of downtown rapid city that evening, including art alley - basically an alley given to artists to graffiti to their hearts delight. it's a pretty cool place.


our after-downtown drive took us past these barns. i haven't the ability to explain why i love old, broken down buildings. but i certainly do enjoy photographing them.

if you're interested, i uploaded a bunch of my photos to my flickr account. you can either click on the flickr box on the right, or visit this link to view them. if you view them as a slideshow, you can click on the i in the center of the photo & it will show you the descriptions i put in to explain what's what.