Emptiness around memorable sights: LAPC

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• Lovely! We would like to go to Mount Rushmore some day.

  • Thanks, Lisa! Go early to avoid crowds. :)

    • And we would avoid summer break! 😊 You chose a perfect time!

• A lovely post and as I was admiring your photos, it was the skies my eyes kept drawing to.

  • Thank you, Liz! The skies are definitely one of the main characters in each picture.

• Wow Siobhan, how odd that there were no other tourists at such a popular spot!! I loved those images especially the last. The "windsock" is amazing too. Excellent choices for the week

  • Thanks, Tina! Yeah, it was weird no one was there. We were there at about 6:15 am on a June day.

• Siobhan, what a captivating gallery you shared! How lucky you were to have Mount Rushmore all to yourself.

  • Thanks, Egidio! Yes, it was nice to see it without the usual crowds. 😁

• What a great adventure Siobhan. You were lucky, indeed, to visit Mt. Rushmore and find it empty of visitors. We went about the same time of day and found it crowded. That was in 2013. You also showed us beautiful, almost barren landscapes. Well done!

  • Thanks, Anne! Mount Rushmore was amazingly empty. Lots of wide open spaces on that road trip.

• Great photos. Love those wide open spaces. Lucky you, no people!!!

  • Thanks! Loved those scenic landscapes and the lack of crowds.

• Amazing landscapes. I live in the coastal mountains and don't venture into the vast plains over the mountains so I just am gobsmacked 😲

  • Yeah, it's a lot different from the coast. You can see for miles under beautiful skies. 😄

• big skies!

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  • Yes, it's known as Big Sky country for a reason, Graham. :D Beautiful skies there.

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• Love your landscape and cloudscape images, beautifully captured.
  I remember how crowded the Mount Rushmore was. :)

  • Thanks, Amy! Loved the clouds on our trip. I had only been there when I was a little kid, but I remember it being crowded then.

• Wonderful photos, Siobhan. Just lovely, wide-open skies, and that vast open land. Perfect for the challenge. I appreciated the Mt. Rushmore image. I've never seen it from the road before. A wonderful perspective.

  • Thank you, Patti! beautiful skies around there. Yes, the wide pathway leading to Mount Rushmore was unusually empty.