I'm not sure what you know about the Grand Teton in Wyoming but I will tell you that it is 13,775 feet tall and is the second highest peak in Wyoming. I will also tell you that one version of the origin of its name is that a French-Canadian explorer looked at it and said, "That looks like a 'grand teton,'" which is French for "big breast." Leave it to a man wandering for months in the wildnerness with a bunch of other men to look at a mountain peak and see female body parts.So what does this photo have to do with the Tetons? Well, I certainly don't look at these landforms and see tetons. I'm not that kind of person! But I must admit that this vista, which I have seen dozens of times, is sensuous - in part because it is pleasant scene. More than that, though, it is on the last leg towards the place where I kept my boat on Lake Oahe for 15 years. It therefore meant that I was minutes away from seeing the beautiful expanse of the Little Bend area of Lake Oahe. By this point of my 4 hour journey from Watertown, I was very focused on what it would feel and sound like to be under sail again.So I suppose if I were naming this landform, it wouldn't be "Petite Sein" (you'll have to look that up). Instead, it would be "Étant Sur le Point Arrive," which means "Almost There."
Summer comes, and, some time in late July or early August, so does exceptionally warm weather. And we complain. But soon fall and winter come. And we complain. Thus, I have concluded, the weather we experience in South Dakota gives us something to talk about all year.Imagine living in Kona, Hawaii, where it gets into the 80s every day and slips into the high sixties almost every night. What do they talk about? Vog? Tsunamis? Coffee?
