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Devils Tower National Monument, September 2003
On our way home from Grand Teton National Park, we planned to stop in Rapid City, SD to visit some friends. Along the way to Rapid City we briefly stopped at Devil's Tower. During our visit we hiked the Tower Trail along the base of the monolith.
Devil's Tower was America's first National Monument, granted that status by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. It is composed of volcanic rock that was once molten and forced upwards between other rock. The molten material did not reach the surface, but instead cooled as it was forced up. Over time the surrounding rock was weathered away by erosion to reveal the Tower's presence.
Devils tower of Wyoming.
They call them the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it’s something of a secret that the Black Hills extend into Wyoming, too. Although 90 percent of the Black Hills are in South Dakota, the timbered mountains of the Black Hills National Forest do continue 10 to 40 miles beyond the South Dakota border, west into Wyoming.
A large chert outcropping near the Peak of Mount Diablo.
The "Devil Mountain" obviously has quite a few legends associated with it. The most well known is a version involving a Franciscan padre from a nearby mission, who in defiance of his new Native converts decides to ascend the cursed mountain to show the glory of God. At the top, he observes the hundreds of miles of land, which in his mind sprang up with cathedrals, orchards and gardens. At this point, the Devil shows up as an elderly, well dressed figure, and before he could be driven off, the Devil tempts the friar with a vision of the future. Succumbing to the knowledge, the padre agrees. With a flourish of his hat, the Devil bids the padre to look to the West, where Spanish soldiers and friars head off with the horses and banners and crosses into the sunset. Taken aback, the friar replies, “The seed they have planted shall thrive and prosper on this fruitful soil.” The Devil then points to the East, where come large groups of men with blue eyes and blonde hair appear, and the trees and ground tear up as they arrive. Horrified, the padre asks why the newcomers arrive, and is responded by a trip to the underworld, where he finds flowing rivers of gold. The Devil offers the padre to return to Spain to enjoy his life and delay the onslaught, but is driven off by the padre, who is wounded in the fight. And of course the inevitable arrives.
This version is quite popular, and in fact I have seen a painting of it at one of California's old state capitols. However this version was actually written in 1863 as the "Legend of Monte Diablo" by the famed author Bret Harte in the Atlantic Monthly. He appeared to have made up the entirety of the story.
Mount Diablo State Park, Clayton, California
The Devils Postpile is an amazing sight. I could attempt to write a description of how this formation was created, but you'd be better off checking out this link.
For a scale, check out the size of the trees. These are huge columns of rock.
Devils Tower is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge ... Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. .... a prime example being the columnar “hoodoo” formations at Bryce Canyon National Park.
The reflective surfaces are not textures!
Mumixer had pointed me in the direction of Devil's Moon a few weeks ago but with one thing and another I only made it out there today - and fell flat on my face so to speak: I was always under the impression that reflections and reflectivity is beyond the scope of present day real time render. So, how on earth did they achieve this? And why does it create no lag whatsoever? I took a lot of screenshots, some from the exact same location at slight angle variations since I want my computer scientist colleague, Selim to take a look at these and tell me what the hell is going on here...
Beautiful SIM too btw, but quite frankly the technology had me so gobsmacked that I couldn't really take much else in. Will go back for sure.
6 hours later:
ahum... Mossy put me wise: It is an extremely clever design trick: They did the entire architecture twice, one being the perpendicular mirror image of the other and then interleaved it with those transparent textures.
jeez... am i embarrassed or what?
Taken near the topmost switchback of the Devil's Corkscrew. It took us about half an hour to climb up from the creek.
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February 19th, 2019 - TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA - The Toronto Marlies, AHL affiliate of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, take on the Binghamton Devils at the Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo credit: Christian Bonin/TSGphoto.com)
I'm the devil, or I'm wearing a scary hockey mask from Kingdom of Loathing that has horns. The Office Space reference is nice.
These are night bloomers, lasting just a short time in the morning. Large saucer like flowers of the purist white. It is unsure how they got their name. It could be because of the trumpet shape like Angel's Trumpet except that they point up from the ground as opposed to down from 'heaven'. Or it could be because of their poisonousness. I planted this away from any of my plants. See my time-lapse video for how they open.
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