Out West 2020: The Prairies of South Dakota

Grasshoper locusts of the prairie: hotel window in Sturgis, South Dakota

This variety only appears every seven years...

The Sturgis River

Dakota Prairies.......................................

The wire that won the West!

The Founding Fathers monument in South Dakota: disappointing picture!

Most unrealistic cabin: the pioneers used sod houses out here.

 

 

 

Out West 2020: The Great Lakes Northwest

This being the quadricentennial of the founding of America's most prominent settlement, the founding of Plymouth, we decided to take a family trip across America. But we went West to the Pacific rather than East. Two reasons, more scenery and less people/Covid problems.

Our route took us from Michigan through Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and finally northern California, where we have a little lodge in the sequoias of the Sierra Nevada range. Magnificent in a desolate sort of way, and we managed to follow Laura Ingalls' path.

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Rural Minnesota

Crossing into Minnesota, overlooking the Mississippi River

The Wisconsin Dells

 

Sanford Dam and Flood Update 2020

Sanford and Midland Floods

Sad to see my hometown and friends underwater. Been hard at work recovering what we can.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/michigan-dam-breach.html


https://www.wsj.com/articles/family-regroups-after-michigan-dam-failure-were-seeing-the-worst-case-scenario-11590077015

A Prince has Fallen

"Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?"

Words cannot begin to describe my feelings of loss at the passing of Dr. R. C. Sproul into glory. Like thousands of others, I first came to know the Reformed faith through the teachings of Sproul and can still remember the Sunday School lessons we had with his lecture videos in our dear church Westminster Presbyterian in Vincennes, Indiana. He ran his race faithfully and was, I believe, the greatest American reformer since Jonathan Edwards. Below is a little video of Sproul talking about his favorite subject, the Holiness of God; which holiness he now eternally endures with a reverent adoration, clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. A prince is fallen in Israel.