Howdy y'all. We're just peeking in the window of an old Wild West saloon: Keystone, South Dakota.
Keystone serves as the gateway though for perhaps the most famous American scultpure ever,
TA DA! Mount Rushmore!
It was cool driving down the hill as well, you get one more glimpse of Washington in profile. Very striking and beautiful framed by the pine trees around and below.
Keystone was cute- built up nowadays for Wild West tourism but still retaining some charm with long saloon boardwalks and bars:
Keystone serves as the gateway though for perhaps the most famous American scultpure ever,
and no, I'm not refering to tired ol' me, but that which looms behind me in the distance...
Mount Rushmore. Four American presidents carved in the granite Black Hills - Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt and Lincoln. Each of the presidents were chosen as the embodiment of an American ideal: the struggle for independance, the rights of equality...it was quite poignant seeing it above in the mountains high above us.
It was cool driving down the hill as well, you get one more glimpse of Washington in profile. Very striking and beautiful framed by the pine trees around and below.One more sculpture post coming up- to balance the heroes of American expansion the Native American tribes have a tribute currently being sculpted, set to become the largest sculpture in the world...
-Judy
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