Dawns bloggy blog: Five days to Livingston

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Five days to Livingston

It was a crazy wild five day drive from Connecticut to Livingston, Montana.

A few 10 to 12 hours of driving.

Many times waking up with the moon.

This drive by moon shot looks like a spooky pumpkin.

Early morning drives are accompanied by some fog.

Then clearing and lovely clouds..

Beautiful countryside..

I enjoyed our drive on I-90…big open spaces and no traffic what-so-ever..

and scenes like this..

All these photos were taken from my passenger seat.

No time to stop and take photos when the driver has a destination in mind.

We make it to western South Dakota and start to see remnants of the huge early snowstorm they had several weeks ago.

We saw piles of dead cattle..

I was only able to get a shot of these two.

Rancher Marvin Jobgen has weathered many storms in his 40 years in business, but he's never lost as many cattle as he did during the record-setting winter storm Atlas. A third of his cows, about 100, and 15 percent of his calves died. Two weeks after the October 4 blizzard, livestock producers in western South Dakota are still counting their losses and burying would-be profits in bone pits.

The storm slammed into the region after days with temperatures in the 70s and 80s, catching producers and cattle unprepared. State veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven says so far 7,500 cattle have been reported dead, but that number will grow because right now "reporting isn't high on everybody's mind."

More about this here..

Gorgeous clouds driving thru South Dakota…