Painted Canyon & Enchanted Highway

Sunday we were on the road again.  We stopped at Painted Canyon Visitor Center, also in T.R.Nat'l Park. Even though it was overcast, the scene was still spectacular.  We had read in Nick Russell's Gypsy Journal about the Enchanted Highway that goes from Gladstone to Regent, ND on Hwy 4531.  The sculpturer, Gary Greff, has made seven larger than life sculptures from old farm machinery and other scrap metal, beginning in 1991.  His purpose was to bring tourists into his town, Regent.  We traveled the Highway taking pictures and enjoying the pastoral sights along the way.  The wheat was rippling in the breeze, "amber waves of grain",  horses were silhouetted on the top of a hill, and the canola fields were bright yellow.  When we arrived at Regent, we stopped at the Ice Cream/Gift Shop.  When Gene asked the fellow who was dipping up ice cream what Gary did when he wasn't sculpturing, he answered, "I work here."  He has several more sculptures planned.  The next one will be "Spider Web" 

Painted Canyon

Geese in Flight

Pheasants on the Prairie

Deer Crossing

Teddy Rides Again

Largest Tin Family

Grasshoppers in the Field

Fisherman's Dream

We traveled on to Bowman Haley Rec.Area near Scranton to spend a couple days and on Tuesday we left North Dakota and into South Dakota.  So, this is a good stopping place for now.  I have high hopes of having wifi again wherever we end up tomorrow and can continue this saga. God's blessings to all.