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Devote one hour at the dusk, (like we did at 5 AM, during your sleepless vacation), to tour around the park, right off the campground! Meandering between the mound give you an amazing views in the Badlands, where you can be were blown away by this quietest place on earth, when you even cannot hear a cricket. The scenery is absolutely incredible, and image to be greeted by this surreal panorama of hoodoo mounds. You are touched by the sun kissing the hills, incredibly soft light creating stunning crevices on the side hills! This is a perfect time for a hike, when no mosquitoes are hunting you, so you can venture freely.
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Taken from Badlands National Park in South Dakota last June...
"Why are some of the badlands mounds yellow?
As the water level dropped and the sea floor became land, the Pierre Shale (the bottommost rock layer of the Badlands) crumbled into soil and created the Yellow Mounds Formation, so called because of its mustard-like color."
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Long before Sweden was a nation and a Christian country, great men reigned from the area today known as Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala) which was both a political and religious centre. And here you can find the Royal mounds (Kungshögarna or just Gamla Uppsala högar, Old Uppsala mounds). Those buried here, in the 5th and 6th centuries, are not known. Folklore told that it was the gods Thor, Oden and Frey, and later historians guessed it was the kings of Swedes, Aun, Adil and Egil. But the truth is we just don't know.
This large 25 foot high geothermal wonder is one of my favorites at Mammoth Hot Springs. Easy to see how it got it's name. It can be found on the Upper Terrace Drive.
Thanks for taking a look!
Have a wonderful week!
children go up with sledges, the sun appears briefly behind frosty trees.../ Tumbas vikingas, unos chicos suben con sus trineos, de a momentos asoma un sol lejano tras los árboles escarchados…/ Kungahögar i Gamla Uppsala, några barn går upp för att åka pulka, stundvis tittar solen fram bakom frostiga träd...
A rare snowstorm covered Joshua Tree National Park. It was a beautiful sight to see the Joshua Trees draped in snow and icicles.
Wishing all my Flickr friends around the world a Joyous Holiday Season.
Topaz Studio Impressions.
On a final swing through the Badlands NP in South Dakota - the section called Yellow Mounds offered a wonderful view to show off the many colors. The rain storm lifting added to the saturation of ground colors.
IR shot of a Neolithic burial mound overlooking the village of Avebury in South West England. Avebury itself is a Neolithic henge monument in the South West of England containing three stone circles likley to have been over 3000 years BC. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument.
The Yellow Mounds in Badlands National Park are what geologists call a paleosol. Paleosols are ancient, fossilized soils preserved in the rock record, and they often appear as brightly colored layers like the Yellow Mounds, which gets its mustardy color from a mineral called Goethite.
In the North West corner of Yellowstone is this Orange Springs Mound as steam wafts from the top as it has for thousands of years spreading calcium and bacteria giving it the many colors once more the colors tend to change with the time of the year. Sometimes in the fall it is more orange.
As the sun sets on a pleasant January evening, the Chicago-bound Southwest Chief races across the desert at Wagon Mound, New Mexico.
I remember the name for this particular part of The Badlands. Well-named and memorable.
These strangely colored mounds are the result of an ancient sea draining away and the chemicals from decaying plants turning the soil yellow.
This is the last of this Badlands set. More later. Thanks for tagging along.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Nos. 5390, 5377 and 5401 power Union Pacific’s westbound LJP45 dirt train just east of Mounds, Utah, on the Sunnyside Branch on May 22, 2002.
3 inches of rain fell the night before and several more inches over the previous weekend caused some water issues near Mound Street in the Village of East Davenport. That's a standard construction zone barrel barely sticking out of the water on the left!
BNSF's 428 local returns to Rock Island after making their turn to Alcoa.
October 10, 2018.
St Clement in Old Romney is a Church of England parish church and one of the oldest churches in Kent. It was originally constructed in the 12th century although there is some evidence of an original structure on the site dating back to the 8th century.
One of the most-visited Marsh churches, built on an artificial mound to protect it from the floodwaters. There is a Norman nave enlarged by the addition of aisles in the thirteenth century. Because of its virtually unrestored state it has many items of interest, the uneven floor creating a very rural atmosphere.
After Photographing the Milky Way the previous night, I forced myself to get out for the sunrise. I was so happy I did, as the colors of the sky were spectacular.
a small dry creek bed cuts through a section of the park known as Yellow Mounds, a group of hills known for their array of colors. Rolling mounds of reds, yellows and browns mixed with the occasional green vegetation makes this place especially photogenic.
While photographing the sunrise to the east in the Yellow Mounds of the Badlands, I could absolutely sense something was going on in the sky to the west. Sure enough, I turned around and scampered for a composition I liked. The sky was almost the same color as the pink/purple lines of the upper strata in the mounds.
With the famous "Wagon Mound" landmark looming in the distance, Amtrak Train No. 4 whizzes by the intermediate semaphores between E Wagon Mound and W Levy, New Mexico, on June 30, 2024. Units 207, 164 and 14 power the 8-car train–––photo by Joe McMillan, 5:17 p.m.
CN L506 switches Consolidated Grain & Barge in Mound City, Illinois with SD40-2W 5244 on point. L506 is a daily local out of the Illinois Central yard at Cairo handling switching duties at Cairo, Mounds, and Mound City. This day, their work was light, spotting about 20 loaded coke hoppers, pulling 8 empties, and dragging 3 motors (CN 8888, CN 3086, and IC 1034, which brought an empty grain train from Decatur for ADM at Mound City the night before) from the Mound City siding to the main at Mounds. After doing all this within 20 minutes, they were ready to shove back to Cairo Yard.
Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5390, 5349, and 5371 pull the “Dirt Train” up the Sunnyside Sub along Grassy Trail Creek the morning of Oct. 16, 2004. The Helper-based LJP45 became the last bastion of pure D&RGW tunnel motors on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Swinging through the curves coming into Mounds, Utah, is Union Pacific’s LJP45 local nearing the approach signal for the junction with the main line a trip back Helper on February 5, 2004. Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5390 leads the way, with Engineer Mel Baughman at the throttle and Steve McFarland in the conductor’s seat.
Bacteria and algae create the streaks of color on Orange Spring Mound. It is noticeably different from many of the other terrace formations nearby. Its large mounded shape is the result of very slow water flow and mineral deposition.
Matanuska Glacier ~ Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 140, f/11.0, 28mm, 1/500s
Canadian National L506 pulls down the Mound City Branch back out to the Illinois Central main at Mounds after switching CGB. CN L506 works industries in Cairo, Mounds, and Mound City.
A westbound Union Pacific West Elk coal train climbs into Mounds Utah on UP's Green River Subdivision.