Mount Rushmore

 Trish and I are in a cabin called Blur Bell Lodges in Custer State Park just south of Rapid City for several days.  Just north of where we are staying is the Mount Rushmore Memorial, so, of course, our first stop was a visit there.

It is interesting to not only see the mountain but also try to understand how this sculpture project was carried out.  We learned that Gutzon Borglum had more than 1,200 workers employed over the seventeen years until completion in 1941. We got to visit the studio where is housed the giant-sized clay model from which the final work was created.

We are going to came back here later in the week for the nighttime lighting of the monument.  As we left to head for our cabin, we got an unexpected view of Washington in profile from almost behind the mountain.  This was a total surprise.